Esther C Kane

Ever wonder how Google sees your site? I mean, when the Google robots crawl your website page, what do they see, exactly?

There are several search engine simulator tools out there but a new one, and very good one is by seoconsult.co.uk.

Simply type in the url of the website page you’re researching and you’ll see what Google sees. Let’s try some samples.

I typed in name tags into Google search and the first result I got back was www.nametag.com.

Nothing very different in this screen. Although there do seem to be alot of capital letters here. But the layout is pretty routine, the navigation menu first, then the body of content then the footer content.

I typed in ft myers attorney into Google and the 3rd results was www.samassini.com.

Here’s something a little different. The navigation menu and footer were both at the bottom. The very first thing being read by Google on this page was the body of content. Cool CSS trick.

I typed in flash websites into Google to get a sample of a flash page and I found www.madeinmtl.com – which is a tourism site about Montreal. Beautiful, gorgeous website but when I entered the URL into this tool, the results were pathetic. Only the Title, Description and Keyword tags were legible. Basically, Google comes to this website page and says, there’s nothing here. It’s a shame because it’s really a beautiful website.

For those of you who still own a frame style website (and I can’t imagine but I do know one person who has this) – I typed in the domain of that frame website into this tool (I won’t mention his domain because I’m sure he would be ashamed) – but no surprise there, the only words Google sees on his website are the title, description and keywords tag.

Well, go ahead and check it out, SEO Consult’s new “What Google Sees Tool“. I’m sure you’ll be surprised at what you see on some of your website pages.