{"id":484,"date":"2008-04-09T07:08:42","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T11:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccordwebdesign.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/09\/see-your-site-like-a-search-engine-spider\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T07:08:42","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T11:08:42","slug":"see-your-site-like-a-search-engine-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2008\/04\/09\/see-your-site-like-a-search-engine-spider\/","title":{"rendered":"See Your Site Like a Search Engine Spider"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you want to check out what you’ve done on your web page to see if it is search engine friendly, you can use this smart online tool to take a peak<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why is this tool valuable, if you are using scripts, Ajax, spry, layers, or grids in the implementation of your website, sometimes you need to know can a search engine see the content of what I am doing? This online tools shows you what a search engine will see.<\/p>\n

If you didn’t think that keyword density was important on your page, run your own page in the tool and you will see that all you see is text, text from your text-based navigation, text from your content, and your meta tags. You won’t see JavaScripted items, but you will see the text included from the links.<\/p>\n

One thing that I found today that I will be correcting is that I do not have a space at the end of my navigation links and so when the spider sees my site, the see words run together instead of separate words in some cases. Wow, very valuable especially when the words are top keyword which are important for the spider to see and help with your organic position.<\/p>\n

Run your own site through and see what you see. Remember to enter your URL in the syntax with the http:\/\/ in front of it. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you want to check out what you’ve done on your web page to see if it is search engine friendly, you can use this smart online tool to take a peak. Why is this tool valuable, if you are using scripts, Ajax, spry, layers, or grids in the implementation of your website, sometimes you need to know can a search engine see the content of what I am doing? This online tools shows you what a search engine will see. If you didn’t think that keyword density was important on your page, run your own page in the tool and you will see that all you see is text, text from your text-based navigation, text from your content, and your meta tags. You won’t see JavaScripted items, but you will see the text included from the links. One thing that I found today that I will be correcting is that I do not have a space at the end of my navigation links and so when the spider sees my site, the see words run together instead of separate words in some cases. Wow, very valuable especially when the words are top keyword which are important for the spider to see and help with your organic position. Run your own site through and see what you see. Remember to enter your URL in the syntax with the http:\/\/ in front of it. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-design"],"yoast_head":"\nSee Your Site Like a Search Engine Spider | 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\/see-your-site-like-a-search-engine-spider\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"See Your Site Like a Search Engine Spider | The Web Authority\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When you want to check out what you’ve done on your web page to see if it is search engine friendly, you can use this smart online tool to take a peak. Why is this tool valuable, if you are using scripts, Ajax, spry, layers, or grids in the implementation of your website, sometimes you need to know can a search engine see the content of what I am doing? This online tools shows you what a search engine will see. If you didn’t think that keyword density was important on your page, run your own page in the tool and you will see that all you see is text, text from your text-based navigation, text from your content, and your meta tags. You won’t see JavaScripted items, but you will see the text included from the links. One thing that I found today that I will be correcting is that I do not have a space at the end of my navigation links and so when the spider sees my site, the see words run together instead of separate words in some cases. Wow, very valuable especially when the words are top keyword which are important for the spider to see and help with your organic position. Run your own site through and see what you see. Remember to enter your URL in the syntax with the http:\/\/ in front of it. Enjoy!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2008\/04\/09\/see-your-site-like-a-search-engine-spider\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Web Authority\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mccordweb\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-04-09T11:08:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nancy McCord\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@mccordweb\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@mccordweb\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nancy McCord\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/2008\\\/04\\\/09\\\/see-your-site-like-a-search-engine-spider\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/2008\\\/04\\\/09\\\/see-your-site-like-a-search-engine-spider\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nancy McCord\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ff9d4b511f78814fa53f990f16f66425\"},\"headline\":\"See Your Site Like a Search Engine Spider\",\"datePublished\":\"2008-04-09T11:08:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/2008\\\/04\\\/09\\\/see-your-site-like-a-search-engine-spider\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":242,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Web Design\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/2008\\\/04\\\/09\\\/see-your-site-like-a-search-engine-spider\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/2008\\\/04\\\/09\\\/see-your-site-like-a-search-engine-spider\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/2008\\\/04\\\/09\\\/see-your-site-like-a-search-engine-spider\\\/\",\"name\":\"See Your Site Like a Search Engine Spider | The Web Authority\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2008-04-09T11:08:42+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/2008\\\/04\\\/09\\\/see-your-site-like-a-search-engine-spider\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/2008\\\/04\\\/09\\\/see-your-site-like-a-search-engine-spider\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/2008\\\/04\\\/09\\\/see-your-site-like-a-search-engine-spider\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"See Your Site Like a Search Engine Spider\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Web Authority | McCord Web Services News\\\/Blog\",\"description\":\"Smart Digital Marketing, Real Business Results - McCord Web Services\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"McCord Web Services LLC\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/09\\\/McCord-Web-White-logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/09\\\/McCord-Web-White-logo.png\",\"width\":450,\"height\":203,\"caption\":\"McCord Web Services LLC\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/mccordweb\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/mccordweb\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.instagram.com\\\/nancy_mccord\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.linkedin.com\\\/in\\\/nancymccord\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/user\\\/mccordweb\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\\\/weblogs\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ff9d4b511f78814fa53f990f16f66425\",\"name\":\"Nancy McCord\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/4d7eceefc200ee5c17e44755f885f77c9f52a3e672be4d27ece0305f750b9678?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/4d7eceefc200ee5c17e44755f885f77c9f52a3e672be4d27ece0305f750b9678?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/4d7eceefc200ee5c17e44755f885f77c9f52a3e672be4d27ece0305f750b9678?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Nancy McCord\"},\"description\":\"Nancy McCord is the President and resident blogger for McCord Web Services LLC. She has been providing global web services since 2001. She is a web designer, search engine marketing professional, and search engine and blog expert. She lives in Maryland just south of the Washington DC metro area.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/www.mccordweb.com\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"See Your Site Like a Search Engine Spider | The Web Authority","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2008\/04\/09\/see-your-site-like-a-search-engine-spider\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"See Your Site Like a Search Engine Spider | The Web Authority","og_description":"When you want to check out what you’ve done on your web page to see if it is search engine friendly, you can use this smart online tool to take a peak. Why is this tool valuable, if you are using scripts, Ajax, spry, layers, or grids in the implementation of your website, sometimes you need to know can a search engine see the content of what I am doing? This online tools shows you what a search engine will see. If you didn’t think that keyword density was important on your page, run your own page in the tool and you will see that all you see is text, text from your text-based navigation, text from your content, and your meta tags. You won’t see JavaScripted items, but you will see the text included from the links. One thing that I found today that I will be correcting is that I do not have a space at the end of my navigation links and so when the spider sees my site, the see words run together instead of separate words in some cases. Wow, very valuable especially when the words are top keyword which are important for the spider to see and help with your organic position. Run your own site through and see what you see. Remember to enter your URL in the syntax with the http:\/\/ in front of it. Enjoy!","og_url":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2008\/04\/09\/see-your-site-like-a-search-engine-spider\/","og_site_name":"The Web Authority","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mccordweb","article_published_time":"2008-04-09T11:08:42+00:00","author":"Nancy McCord","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@mccordweb","twitter_site":"@mccordweb","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Nancy McCord","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2008\/04\/09\/see-your-site-like-a-search-engine-spider\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2008\/04\/09\/see-your-site-like-a-search-engine-spider\/"},"author":{"name":"Nancy McCord","@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/#\/schema\/person\/ff9d4b511f78814fa53f990f16f66425"},"headline":"See Your Site Like a Search Engine Spider","datePublished":"2008-04-09T11:08:42+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2008\/04\/09\/see-your-site-like-a-search-engine-spider\/"},"wordCount":242,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Web Design"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2008\/04\/09\/see-your-site-like-a-search-engine-spider\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2008\/04\/09\/see-your-site-like-a-search-engine-spider\/","url":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2008\/04\/09\/see-your-site-like-a-search-engine-spider\/","name":"See Your Site Like a Search Engine Spider | The Web Authority","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/#website"},"datePublished":"2008-04-09T11:08:42+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2008\/04\/09\/see-your-site-like-a-search-engine-spider\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2008\/04\/09\/see-your-site-like-a-search-engine-spider\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2008\/04\/09\/see-your-site-like-a-search-engine-spider\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"See Your Site Like a Search Engine Spider"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/","name":"The Web Authority | McCord Web Services News\/Blog","description":"Smart Digital Marketing, Real Business Results - McCord Web Services","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/#organization","name":"McCord Web Services LLC","url":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/McCord-Web-White-logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/McCord-Web-White-logo.png","width":450,"height":203,"caption":"McCord Web Services LLC"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mccordweb","https:\/\/x.com\/mccordweb","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nancy_mccord\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/nancymccord","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mccordweb"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/#\/schema\/person\/ff9d4b511f78814fa53f990f16f66425","name":"Nancy McCord","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4d7eceefc200ee5c17e44755f885f77c9f52a3e672be4d27ece0305f750b9678?s=96&d=blank&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4d7eceefc200ee5c17e44755f885f77c9f52a3e672be4d27ece0305f750b9678?s=96&d=blank&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4d7eceefc200ee5c17e44755f885f77c9f52a3e672be4d27ece0305f750b9678?s=96&d=blank&r=g","caption":"Nancy McCord"},"description":"Nancy McCord is the President and resident blogger for McCord Web Services LLC. She has been providing global web services since 2001. She is a web designer, search engine marketing professional, and search engine and blog expert. She lives in Maryland just south of the Washington DC metro area.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}