What do Search Engines See?

Working on websites or just surfing them don't you wonder what the search engine sees? Unlike humans, search engines sort information very systematically and how they sort your information on your blog or website is important to how it eventually gets ranked. All of this is part of a major field called Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

Many people blog about SEO and there are discussions all over the net on how to best optimize your site to be recognized and ranked by search engines. Part of the difficulty of SEO is understanding how your site is viewed by the spider, the machine that 'crawls' your site.

Thanks to Donna Perry we don't have to wonder anymore. She has created a tool that will crawl your web page and report what it finds. Its very surprising to see your website stripped of all of its formatting. It makes you realize that proper formatting and layout is key to the spider understanding your content. If you have a site of your own, this tool is very useful!