A friend sent me this link today. Its a great tool to check how your site is being indexed by those creepy little spiders. Its free and gives you a score (my site didn't do so good, YET!) and recommendations for raising that score.

This IS a great little tool - thanks for posting. It's actually quite robust and gives excellent info, nice find! Thanks for sharing

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Thank you for sharing. I'll have to check it out

Cheers,

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Lisa007
http://www.a1officepro.com

This was very helpful!

Thanks,

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I love new tools!!

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Cool! Thanks for posting!

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Mary H. Ruth/Virtual Writing & Communications
http://www.writingVA.com

That was interesting. I don't think I did too bad, seeing as how I know nothing about web design.

This is the gist of what mine said.


Company Virtual Business Services
URL http://vbsofok.com/
Date Fri 14 Mar 2008, 1:55.44pm
Comments Overall grade 16/24 (67%)
No H1 text
Some images don't have descriptions
Page is large (35k)

It said the images should have Alt tags, I read about this somewhere, I guess I need to look into it again. I've also read about H1 text but not sure how to go about that either. Can any of you web guru's give me a quickie on this? It says the page is large but it also said in the report it loaded fast so I'm just going to leave it as is for now.

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Rebecka Melson ~ Virtual Business Services

Originally Posted by Rebecka

That was interesting. I don't think I did too bad, seeing as how I know nothing about web design. This is the gist of what mine said. Company Virtual Business Services URL http://vbsofok.com/ Date Fri 14 Mar 2008, 1:55.44pm Comments Overall grade 16/24 (67%) No H1 text Some images don't have descriptions Page is large (35k) It said the images should have Alt tags, I read about this somewhere, I guess I need to look into it again. I've also read about H1 text but not sure how to go about that either. Can any of you web guru's give me a quickie on this? It says the page is large but it also said in the report it loaded fast so I'm just going to leave it as is for now.

All your images should have an "alt" tag, which coding looks like this for my logo <img src="images/logo2.jpg" alt="Virtual Assistant Paralegal Services" width="760" height="200" /> so that the picture can be considered text to the search engines. Search engines don't read pictures so you need to make an alternative to the picture using important keywords for your site so the search engine sees text.

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Thanks for passing this on.
Sheila M
sjm-vac.om

Oops - that should have read: sjm-va.com