Check Out How Search Bots See Your Website

by Daniel Scocco

Understanding how search bots see your site is quite important for anyone interested in search engine optimization. This let’s you know where your most important content should go, how the links should be structured and so on. A nice tool you can use for this purpose is called SEO browser.

seo-browser

Simply input the URL of your site there and click on “Parse URL.” The result will be how search bots see your site. One rule of thumb to follow is that your most important stuff on each page (e.g., the H1 tag and the content) should be as close to the top of possible.

You can also click on “Advanced mode” to get some extra details about the head section, the statistics of your content and links and so on.

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21 Responses to “Check Out How Search Bots See Your Website”

harry raymond woltman on January 24th, 2010 9:31 pm

Now that’s some helpful information. With the web growing all the time and the number of blogs growing all the time, what can be more helpful than learning how to place well on the search engines? Competition is fierce and an edge can come in handy. I’m going to go right now to see if I have it right.

Ray
Mathew Day on January 25th, 2010 12:04 am

Cool SEO tool, thanks for sharing the link. I’ve never used it before and I’ve been playing around with it for a little while.

Easy to use and it’s Free. It’s very interesting and useful to see my sites the way the bots see them. I can see where I need to make changes and where everything looks okay.

It’s another useful site going into my bookmarks.
robert on January 25th, 2010 1:39 am

Neat tool. I noticed the results display excerpts of each post, so I wonder how this would affect SEO if you have links at the beginning of all your posts.

I also discovered my images could be optimized a little better. Thanks for sharing this tool.
Segedoo on January 25th, 2010 2:13 am

Awesome and very straight to the point.

I’d try it on my blog right away. The Value you add is phenomenal David that I had to link to you

Cheers,
Olusegun
Chester on January 25th, 2010 2:24 am

This is another great tool. Thanks for sharing. I will definitely try this one.
scheng1 on January 25th, 2010 8:05 am

interesting! The robot never pays attention to the google ads.
Web Marketing Company on January 25th, 2010 10:39 am

Google crawlers or bot can check the backend of the website. Specially view source of the code.
Sriraj on January 25th, 2010 11:02 am

Why not try the ‘fetch as Google bot’ function found in webmaster tools? That would be the ‘exact’ Google’s view of your page
Dana @ Blogging Update on January 25th, 2010 11:59 am

It is surely help bloggers to self learning the SEO. Thanks for the info daniel.
Daniel Scocco on January 25th, 2010 12:04 pm

@Sriraj, that is another option.
Christopher on January 25th, 2010 12:23 pm

Well that’s pretty darn neat. Might be able to get a better idea of how it all works now. Thanks.
Selena Hodge on January 25th, 2010 12:58 pm

Wow, thanks Daniel this is really helpful for those of us who just started our blogs.
Vishal Sanjay on January 25th, 2010 1:00 pm

Well this is one interesting post, this is very useful for seo officials. Maybe such images can help us optimize for seo much better.

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Melvin on January 25th, 2010 1:02 pm

cool tool. Never used this one before and I think its beneficial to a lot of bloggers
Aglo on January 25th, 2010 1:21 pm

Amazing, now I can see clearly how they index my pages. Thanks, nice tool!
Lucy Thorpe on January 25th, 2010 2:08 pm

Great, but how do I interpret the results ? What I got was the tags, the title and the links which is presumably what the bot ’sees’. Sounds ok to me. Am I missing something ?
Linda Abel on January 25th, 2010 5:12 pm

Your information is fantastic!! Before August I had no idea how a website or blogs worked much less how to build them but with your blogs I learning. Please keep the good info coming!!!
Hesham @ FamousBloggers on January 25th, 2010 8:03 pm

Amazing tool, I am comparing some blogs to mine, and I have solved a H1 tag problem, thanks a lot!
Web Marketing Tips on January 26th, 2010 4:54 pm

Yes this is quite important for every blog owner to make his or her blog search engine friendly so that they can enjoy the benefit of search engines as well.
Free Money Income on January 27th, 2010 4:41 am

Thanks for sharing this tip, now i know how i should optimize my site more.
Semi Truck Financing on January 28th, 2010 12:22 pm

Wow, Great tool Daniel. I was using SEO Centro before this but I think this is a lot closer to what a bot sees. Thanks again!