Peter Schoenster wrote:
> On 18 May 98 at 8:30, Jack Killpatrick wrote:
> > Peter Schoenster wrote:
> > > To check a sites meta tags etc. try this:
> > >
> > > http://www.rede.com/samples/webping.html
> > >
> > > Enter a url and it will get the title,keywords, description, count the
> > > words, and then display the html of the page (in font 1 or 2 at the
> > > bottom of the page).
> >
> > Peter, thanks for creating this useful utility and letting us know
> > about it. One thing that would make it even more useful would be if
> > it counted words and/or characters in meta name=description and meta
> > name=keywords, since some engines have cut-off points that need to
>
> That would be easy enough to do.
>
> > be accomodated. Another slick addition would be if it ignored a list
> > of "useless words", such as "in, as, the, of, and, etc."
>
> That as well. Do engines also ignore those words or not?
I don't know. I assume they do unless the words are inside " marks with
other words, such as "fred the duck", or whatever.
> I think it would also be useful if you could choose an
> eninge/directory and then see how your page rates with that engine or
> directory. Has anyone done this yet?
The rating would have to be based on keywords and keyword combinations, of
course.
Web Position, which has been mentioned a few times on this list, looks like
it creates very useful reports about this. I've scanned over some of the
reports that others have pointed to, but haven't had the time to investigate
it myself.
http://www.webposition.com/
I've also used a product called Copernic (Win 95-NT), but it really acts
more as an end-user tool to combines search results from different engines
(and show the ranking), rather than a tool for webmasters. Not entirely
useless for what you mentioned, though, since it generates lists based on
keyword results in popular engines.
http://www.copernic.com/
Jack
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