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Now you can put on spidey glasses and see just what the search engine spiders see when they look at your web page with this online tool<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This tool is valuable as you will be able to see if the code you have in a show-hide layer is visible, if you have the spacing set up properly in your navigation, and what a spider sees right when they hit your page. If you did not think that keyword density was important, you will after you review your results.<\/p>\n

All a spider sees is text! Now here’s the test, what does the spider see on a Flash site? Nothing! Enter in http:\/\/www.katybar.com<\/a> in the tool. Then visit the site, you will see that all the spider has indexed is the text that has been added below the Flash image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now you can put on spidey glasses and see just what the search engine spiders see when they look at your web page with this online tool. This tool is valuable as you will be able to see if the code you have in a show-hide layer is visible, if you have the spacing set up properly in your navigation, and what a spider sees right when they hit your page. If you did not think that keyword density was important, you will after you review your results. All a spider sees is text! Now here’s the test, what does the spider see on a Flash site? Nothing! Enter in http:\/\/www.katybar.com in the tool. Then visit the site, you will see that all the spider has indexed is the text that has been added below the Flash image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[357],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-trends"],"yoast_head":"\nWhat Do Search Engine Spiders See? | The Web Authority<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2008\/04\/09\/what-do-search-engine-spiders-see\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Do Search Engine Spiders See? | The Web Authority\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Now you can put on spidey glasses and see just what the search engine spiders see when they look at your web page with this online tool. 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