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How can I see what Google sees when it crawls my page?
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In other words, how can see the text and what not it sees from start to finish on each page. I know there was a site, but I can't remember it.
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I've been using the Google Bot and it has been effective.
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Google Webmaster Tools has upgraded their Fetch as GoogleBot tool to show you a visual representation of what the search crawler will see on your page, Tiffany. I'd absolutely start there, as it's Google's own tool, and you need to have a GWT account anyway.
Paul
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Thank you sooo much!
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Google webmaster tools also has an option to fetch as Googlebot.
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The one that is most commonly mentioned around here is http://www.seo-browser.com/
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Oh, sorry, I just read the title question, not the follow-up explanation. This is a decent site for what you're looking for http://www.webconfs.com/spider-view-article-9.php, but you can pretty much just go google "google search simulator" and get a bunch of different sites that will show the same information, just displayed differently.
Have a fantastic Thursday!
Ruben
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You can try this one: http://tools.seochat.com/tools/search-spider-simulator/
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Oh, I'm so excited, because I finally have an answer to a technical question. In your browser type site:yourwebpage.com! That will list everything google indexes.
Cheers!
Ruben
 
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