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:
- Google Cached Text: adds direct links to Google’s “Text only copy from SERPs”:
And how do you use Google’s cache to analyze the site on-page SEO? Please share!
Ann Smarty
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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
Use Google text cache to check whether cloaking has been applied for a particular page, very useful when being approached for links….
Ann Smarty Reply:
March 24th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Very good add, thanks a lot!
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
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
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.
Google can’t read text on images.
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
Yes, Google is working on putting this availability in for flash.
Adobe actually has some good information up as well.
Adobe SEO
Ann Smarty Reply:
March 24th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
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/
Thanks Ann.
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Great idea. I’ll be putting this to work right away. I
Great Ann! Good idea. Thaks.
Great greasmonkey add on. Nice find and nice write up.
Thanks for the post and tips.
Thanks so much for the tips
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
Yeah..Its a great trick.! and you can also see the cached content..!
great stuff thanks for sharing.
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Great information and really helped me with the site, thanks
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Thanks for the info on cacheing tags, i am going to try to impliment it on my site
Excellent Article, keep up the good work.
Wow, you go a long way. Thanks!