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March 23, 2009

Analyze Your Site with Google “Text Only” Cache

Google cache is an awesome way to analyze the page. With it you can see:

  • If the page elements are correctly ordered;
  • How effectively you use H-headings (H1 - H2 tags);
  • How images are interpreted;
  • If links are visible;
  • Unlinked content versus linked content proportion, etc

To use and access Google’s “Text only” cache, I recommend using these two Greasemonekey plugins:

  • Google Cache Continue Redux: as you know, all links from Google’s cache bring you back to the site itself - this plugin will let you browse the site’s cache by adding yellow “cache” links:

Inside cache

Google "Text only" version from SERPs

And how do you use Google’s cache to analyze the site on-page SEO? Please share!

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28 comments already

  1. tabsfiroz (Mohammed Tabrez) on 12.31.1969 at 11:59 pm | permalink
  2. Great morning all tweeple just checked http://tinyurl.com/c5yrcd

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  3. cleomorgause (Cleo Morgause) on 12.31.1969 at 11:59 pm | permalink
  4. #seo Analyze Your Site with Google ?Text Only? Cache: http://tinyurl.com/c5yrcd (via @DailySEO)

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  5. lisamurphyTO (lisamurphyTO) on 12.31.1969 at 11:59 pm | permalink
  6. Reading: Analyze Your Site with Google ?Text Only? Cache | Daily SEO Tip http://tinyurl.com/c5yrcd

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  7. immanuelruby (ruby85) on 12.31.1969 at 11:59 pm | permalink
  8. Analyze Your Site with Google ?Text Only? Cache http://bit.ly/FMK3

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  9. Open Source on 03.23.2009 at 10:26 pm | permalink
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  11. Barry Welford on 03.23.2009 at 11:23 pm | permalink
  12. I use the Google Cache Text version to demonstrate what the Google spiders are seeing. It is a most graphic way from an authoritative source to show the danger of over-use of Flash and images that bear no ALT text. Most people are critically concerned by what the Google search process is seeing on their website.

    Barry Welford’s last incredible blog post..The Weakest Button - An Open Letter to Matt Cutts, Google

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  13. tabsfiroz on 03.24.2009 at 4:47 am | permalink
  14. Use Google text cache to check whether cloaking has been applied for a particular page, very useful when being approached for links….

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    Ann Smarty Reply:

    Very good add, thanks a lot!

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  15. Brandon Henricks on 03.24.2009 at 1:11 pm | permalink
  16. This is a great tip, I frequently use the cache to see if there are any cloaking methods being implemented and also the index date of the page itself.

    On a side note, you could perhaps use the SEOmoz Crawl test tool as well.

    http://www.seomoz.org/crawl-test?public

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  17. Josh Millrod on 03.24.2009 at 2:24 pm | permalink
  18. Another great way to supplement this “spiderview” is SEOmoz’s term extractor which shows you what terms spiders are pulling out by placement, not just keyword density. http://www.seomoz.org/term-extractor

    Josh Millrod’s last incredible blog post..The Truth About Linkbuilding: Good vs Crappy Links

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  19. Brandon Henricks on 03.24.2009 at 2:28 pm | permalink
  20. Another great way to supplement this “spiderview” is SEOmoz’s term extractor which shows you what terms spiders are pulling out by placement, not just keyword density. http://www.seomoz.org/term-extractor

    I just started to use the Term extractor tool and it is great. However there is a lot of noise in terms of how you shouldn’t really be going after keyword density.

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  21. Kalai Ganesan on 03.24.2009 at 6:24 pm | permalink
  22. Google can’t read text on images.

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  23. Kalai Ganesan on 03.24.2009 at 6:35 pm | permalink
  24. With Google’s flash indexing algorithm, web designers can expect improved visibility of their published Flash content, and you can expect to see better search results and snippets.

    http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/google-learns-to-crawl-flash.html

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  25. Brandon Henricks on 03.24.2009 at 8:05 pm | permalink
  26. Yes, Google is working on putting this availability in for flash.

    Adobe actually has some good information up as well.
    Adobe SEO

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    Ann Smarty Reply:

    Foe more information on Google’s ability to index Flash, please refer to our recent SEJ post by Glenn Gabe http://www.searchenginejournal.com/flash-seo/9292/

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  27. CEO Email Lists on 03.25.2009 at 11:51 am | permalink
  28. Thanks Ann.

    CEO Email Lists’s last incredible blog post..InfoAppenders release IT decision makers list in an Effort to Target Information Technology Sectors.

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  29. Kitchen Sinks on 03.28.2009 at 11:38 pm | permalink
  30. Great idea. I’ll be putting this to work right away. I

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  31. mike on 04.23.2009 at 12:49 am | permalink
  32. Great Ann! Good idea. Thaks.

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  33. Phil Buckley on 05.06.2009 at 2:22 pm | permalink
  34. Great greasmonkey add on. Nice find and nice write up.

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  35. Jonathan on 06.15.2009 at 3:00 am | permalink
  36. Thanks for the post and tips.

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  37. Laser Printer on 08.22.2009 at 4:42 pm | permalink
  38. Thanks so much for the tips :)

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  39. Kelly on 12.05.2009 at 3:57 am | permalink
  40. Can you please explain why using Google’s text only cache is beneficial? I don’t really understand from your post why I would use it

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  41. Shubham on 12.29.2009 at 11:44 am | permalink
  42. Yeah..Its a great trick.! and you can also see the cached content..!

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  43. nitin on 01.01.2010 at 9:21 am | permalink
  44. great stuff thanks for sharing.

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  45. solanki on 01.14.2010 at 8:58 pm | permalink
  46. this is really very helpful post. thanks for sharing

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  47. anita on 02.17.2010 at 6:42 am | permalink
  48. thanks for sharing nice information

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  49. akshey on 02.17.2010 at 6:44 am | permalink
  50. sharing nice information

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  51. Mr C on 02.25.2010 at 5:28 am | permalink
  52. I just used your information to check my site
    http://www.kitesurfing-muine.com its a kitesurf web site for Mui Ne Vietnam, but I was having issues with the text not being read by google.

    Great information and really helped me with the site, thanks

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