SEO Tool Chest - Page Analysis Tools 2

Continuing with my SEO Tool Chest series, here's one of my favorite search engine simulators. Poodle Predictor does all the usual things plus many more.

Put your URL in the "Poodle Search" form field and click on "Poodle Search". This brings up a overview page that shows you your page's listing description from Google SERPs and the listing description from the first 10 links from your page.

Click on "diagnostic view" under the main listing and this gives you the simulated view of your page, as a spider will see it. It has color coding for all the important tags and offers you warnings of major problems. The diagnostic view gives you a visual representation of the order your content is spidered (beware of table layouts).

With this view, you can see if you have high code or image weight. Just look for large blocks of white space. You can also look at the "Source Code View" which shows you the same representation with the code visible. This is really dramatic when viewing a table based page or one with navigation first.

Clicking on any of your links loads the destination page into the "Poodle Predictor" and you can start all over again.

This is really a good way to take a quick glance at a page. Look for lots of colors (good use of tags - except red = warnings), not much white space (good code to content ratio) and content first, and you know that page is a good candidate for the search engines.

Check back regularly for additions to my SEO Tool Chest.

martin