What
Is Google Poodle & How It Will Help You
by Jean Sutherland
This
is an extremely useful tool that will help you get an idea
of how your site will look in google search engine results.
See how search-engine friendly your site is, and can the
spider crawl it easily? This will determine whether or not
you will get good rankings.
By
using Google Poodle you will avoid making errors that can
stop your site from getting a good listing. It will also
show whether or not you have a useless description of your
site in the search engine results.
What
Poodle tries to do is duplicate the rules used by major
search engines as they spider your site. Of courese it can't
be exact due to different algorithms used by different engines
but it does give you some insight into where you need to
make some corrections.
With
over 80% of people coming to your site through search engines
this is something you can not afford to pass up as one of
your most useful tools in search engine optimization.
What
Poodle attemts to do is to show you 4 differnt views of
how your website is viewed by search engines. The spider
view will show results that show what you would see in a
search engine if you searched for your site by URL.
Below
that there will be a list of crawlable links that the google
poodle spider found on the site entered. These links have
been spidered and it gives you a simulated search engine
view. Then if you click on these links you will crawl that
site. You will not go to it.
Beneath
that you will see the Poodle Diagnostic's view. When you
click the Diagnostics view link, there will appear a color
coded representation of what the search spider sees at that
URL. The colors seperate the various elements that are important
to search engines and will give you an idea of where you
can make some changes.
Next
you will see and can click on the source code view and see
a color coded representation of your HTML code of your URL.
This is usually used to de-bug a site when it does not show
as it should in the other views.
If
when using Google Poodle you run into error problems this
is also an indication that the googlebot will also encounter
a problem and your site will not get indexed properly.
Jean
Sutherland has successfully run her own ezine for over 5
years and has a subscriber base of 35,000. Her ezine revolves
around people doing business online and beside offering
free software, it also provides traffic & marketing
tips, informative business articles, free ebooks and computer
tips for those trying to work online.
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