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See Like A Spider
(rt) Want to view your web site as seen by a search engine spider? In realtime? Well, that’s what Nathan Enns’s Fybersearch offers here. In contrast with other spider simulators abounding on the Net, this one’s a real world search engine spider spilling all the beans.
A great tool for checking out your site design, too!
And here is his → Search Industry Blog
Young as he may be (19 years, in fact, according to his About page), he also seems to be the world’s only search engine operator actually clued about the merits of cloaking: in his → SEO Rules he doesn’t simply condemn it outright with religious furor. Rather, this is his take on the matter:
“Cloaking” is used to describe the act of showing one version of a web page to search engines and another version to general users. The web page shown to search engines is written specifically to appeal to search engines and hopefully receive higher rankings than the page shown to users.
In most cases cloaking is a fine tactic to use when optimizing for higher rankings in FyberSearch. If it is obvious that a web page is written to rank well under unrelated search queries then it runs a high risk of being banned.
You may have a web page containing mostly non-text content that FyberSpider cannot read. This does not mean the web pages is useless to users; it should receive a fair ranking in FyberSearch.
Can’t really argue with that, can we? Good show, Nathan, and keep it up!
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