Search Engine Spider Simulators
I know this is in no way comprehensive or particularly detailed in my analysis. But here are some links to online spider simulators that I’ve recently found.
http://www.searchwho.com/sw5-spider.html
- interesting info here
http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php
- pretty minimal
http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi-bin/sim_spider.cgi
- quite comprehensive
http://tools.summitmedia.co.uk/spider/
- this is layed out really well. Very stylized and informative
http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/search-engine-simulator.shtml
- a little jumbled with the information.
I searched these out because I often use the Lynx Viewer here:
http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html to see what a prospect’s site would look like from a purely text format. You now need to upload a file on the server that confirms that you are in control of that site. I can’t do that in many cases because I’m using the viewer in the proposal stage of our relationship. So this all lead me on a journey to find some other tools.
- enjoy.
