Tools Analyze a site
Analyze a site
Text only browser This tool simplifies the way a page is presented by stripping out the graphics and flash files and java script elements. It gives you a basic search engine view of a page. It is very helpful if you want to see who search friendly a site is.http://www.seo-browser.com/ |
Sim spider This tool gives you an analysis of what a search engine spider would see, showing the links and text along with the meta text.http://www.seochat.com or http://www.webconfs.com they both work well, but in my opinion the seochat tool gives a better breakdown of the page in questionAnd Poodle Predictor whicih gives you spider view, code view and header view. Its a clean and easy tool to use |
Redirect tool This looks at whether there are search engine unfriendly redirects on a site - 301 redirect is good, if there is a redirect on the page http://www.webconfs.com/ |
Xenu  http://home.snafu.de/A desktop tool which spiders a whole site to see how many pages there are giving number of broken links, |
Robots.txt Check the robots.txt file to make sure its ok. Sometimes they can be set up wrongly so they tell search spiders NOT to go to the right places on a site. For more on robots.txt and what you should look for see :http://en.wikipedia.org the detection tool: http://www.sxw.org.uk/ usually the robots file will be found as http://www.mywebsite.com/robots.txt |
| Check a server setup. Occasionally if im asked to build a site, I need to see what the server configutaiton is, so I either shift servers or stay put. As you know sometimes its difficult to see from first impressions. Server checker tool
SEOdigger find competitors keywords that they rank for. Very useful when you are building an SEO campaign |