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
  • <!-- comment tags stuffed with lists of keywords-->
  • 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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