My cached site is a webmasters nightmare

But why?

[reddevil]

I don't know why, but I have just checked Yahoo and Googles Cached pages for my website and they are a webdesigners nightmare. They look awful - they are so big and woudl make anybody sick if they saw it.

I have tested my pages in IE6, Netscape 6 and Mozilla 1.6 and they look fine.

Can anybody guide me in the right direction to sort the problem out - what other browsers should I be previewing my site in to make sure than the SEs can see my site as it was intended?

Thanks.

[tedster]

If you use any kind of offset CSS positioning (relative, absolute) the pages directly from your server may look great - but the cached pages on G and Y! will not be good. Nothing for it, except to avoid such CSS-P.

However, the way your pages look in the cache does not mean anything about what the spiders "see". SE spiders don't see a page all laid out graphically - they are just taking your mark-up and analyzing the content they see at the level of code, not appearance.

[RammsteinNicCage]

I placed everything in the body in a container div with a relative positioning of top:0; and left:0; which solved the problems with my absolutely positioned site overlapping the google cached message.

Jennifer

[tedster]

Thanks for that idea, Jennifer. I've got a couple spots where it will come in handy.