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paulclarke

9:30 pm on Mar 27, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Hi,

I just tried

Search Engine World / SE Tools / Sim Spider

for the first time and found my keywords and desc meta tags could not be found. I re-cut and then pasted them back again in dreamweaver 3 and uploaded to server.

This time they show up fine.

Should I do this to all 450 pages ? Do you think Google would have seen my page this way ? and why do you think this happened ?

Many thanks

Paul

Brett_Tabke

9:39 pm on Mar 27, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Drop me the url in stickymail, and I'll have a look. Most often, there is some minor error on the page. I've gotten enough questions along this lines, that I'm almost of a mind to run the page through a html validator first and point out the errors.

Fact is, we know realatively little about the search engine html parsers. They could have great error recovery, or they could be terrible. I think it is one area, we almost all universally overlook when submitting pages. People think that, "hey, it looks good in a browser" that it should look good to a spider - it don't work that way vern.

Some of the best all time seo "tricks" have been found from html errors on the page. The duplicate title tags of 96-98 are the classic example. Who knows where parsers are today with such issues.

In that environment, a tool such as a spider simulartor, must err on the side of caution.

rogerd

9:41 pm on Mar 27, 2002 (gmt 0)

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I'd look carefully at the code of the "before" and "after" pages. There is almost certainly some difference - cutting and pasting identical text won't have any effect on the readability of the HTML.

Marcia

10:29 pm on Mar 27, 2002 (gmt 0)

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I had it with one - end quote or > was missing, it was that easy.

paulclarke

7:57 am on Mar 28, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Thank you all,

I will check the html code. Must just be a small bug in my html editor.

TallTroll

9:30 am on Mar 28, 2002 (gmt 0)

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SimSpider is quite picky. I've had troubles with it before. One point I noticed is that for KW/DESC you need to be sure that the HTML is perfect (no spaces between " and =, or " and >), and you have to get the tags in the right order as well.