SEW's Spider Sim ignores my navigation

the most important table on my page ignored!

[messneger]

I've tried: [searchengineworld.com...] on my site.

And I was horrified to discover it hardly recognizes any links & body text anymore. I don't think I've exagerrated with tables, because my current layout is nested 4 levels and it does get through. This new (2-level-nested) code doesn't :¦ Any ideas what to blame?

[edited by: heini at 11:41 am (utc) on June 8, 2003]
[edit reason] removed url per TOS / thanks and welcome! [/edit]

[rogerd]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld! I'd start by running an HTML validator on your site. My guess is that in your redesigned tables, there's some punctuation or tag(s) missing. Browsers are often more forgiving of syntax errors than spiders, so it may look OK in IE but still have a serious code error.

[jbinbpt]

Always a good move to validate changes. I've been using the validator at W3C [validator.w3c.org...] , but it seems to be down at the moment. The validator at WDG [htmlhelp.com...] works well.

[Brett_Tabke]

Roger has it. 99% of the problems I hear about the spider having can be solved by validating the code. I take no questions about the page in question until the code validates.

[messneger]

This is strange. When I posted my message this morning, I tried the Sim Spider several times and it ignored important text & links. This evening I try again and it finds all it needs to find! And I haven't changed a thing.

Thanks for the suggestions by the way and indeed: Hello everybody! I'm here to stay ;)