What is a Spider for Search Engines?

Search engine spiders see your pages much differently than you do. Though the different search engines vary in their ranking algorithms, their spiders all work in basically the same way. They read the text only, ignoring other elements like Flash and JavaScript that are there to please human readers. It can be very helpful to view your pages as spiders do so you can make adjustments to make your website more spider friendly.

About the Free Spider Crawl Test

WeBuildPages offers a free Spider Viewer, a search engine spider simulator, that will allow you to evaluate your website with a spider’s view of page content, internal links, meta information, and source code. You can quickly see where your keywords are placing in the spider’s view – important since keywords at the top carry more weight than those same keywords further down on the page. With this view of your website, and those of your competitors, you can make those changes to elevate your website in search engine ranking.