WebPage Tools: Checking for Indexing Problems

Online tools for checking a webpage for search engine listing problems.

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Tools for Checking for Search Engine Listing Problems

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Useful Online Tools
Search engine indexing may fail for a variety of reasons. These advanced online tools help you discover any problems and help prepare a website for premium indexing performance.

Server Checking	HTML	Wording Resources
Server Header Checker SpiderView Robot.txt file Validator Robot.txt Generator Robots Exclusion Robots Resources Down Load Timer Indexing Error Codes Net Connection Speed Trace Route Connection	Spider Simulator HTML Validation Frames WebPage Size Meta Tag Checker Meta Tag Generator HTML squisher HTML Page Formater	Spell Check Site Translator Keyword Suggestions Keyword Thesaurus Keyword Density Search Engine Glossary Search Engine Terms SEO Glossary

What may hinder search engine indexing?

robots.txt

403 error: Forbidden
disallows indexing portion of site URL is located
syntax errors ( / or * in wrong places)
Disallows User-agent:
Server redirecting location of robot.txt

Server Response

404 error: url mispelled, Response slow, Time out
Server Header redirects URL to different URL Location
Server Header setting: connection closed

Html Issues

2 titles
2 heads
missing <head> tags
missing <html> tags
major html syntax errors
no indexible content
SPAM

What may be considered Spam?

Any technique used to manipulate search listing results for a page without relevant query content may be considered SPAM by a search engine. These techniques may include:

Redirects: meta refresh, server side relocations, java scripting open new
hidden text; font same color as background color
keyword stuffing on page
meta description tags resembling keyword lists
excessively long title tags
meta keyword tags with many repeats or excessively long
incorrect meta classification rating (adult sites should not rate "General")
duplicate submission of pages / sites / content

Details of Server Checking
Many indexing problems may be identified by using the Server Header Checker to see your server's response to a request for your url and your site's robots.txt file.

Sample Server Check Results

URL Checked:

Document type + error status:

Date + Time Checked:

Server Type and Server software:

Actual File Location:

Max Connections + timeout :

Connection Continuance:

Transfer-Encoding Type:

Document Content-Type:

Server Response: http://www.infospider.com

Status: HTTP/1.1 302 Found

Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 00:29:14 GMT

Server: Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) mod_perl/1.25 mod_ssl/2.8.4 OpenSSL/0.9.6a

Location: https://www.infospider.com/

Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100

Connection: Keep-Alive

Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Note: If the server responds with a Last-Modified date, a url's search results listing may display this date or a search engine may display the date the spider crawled the webpage and gathered the information.

Indexing problems may occur if:

Server Response URL differs from Location URL
Status Returns Problem Error
Connection set at close

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