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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
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.