OptiSpider
is another software program by
Leslie Rohde,
programmer of the acclaimed products
OptiLink and
Mastering
PageRank.
OptiSpider's main purpose is to act as a
link proofreader for your website. It
basically simulates a search engines crawl
through your site then OptiSpider reports
any errors it encounters.
OptiSpider focuses on bringing the
following errors to your attention: spider
traps, unreachable pages, missing pages,
missing page titles, wrong page titles,
incorrect links, and missing links.
These are all caused by tiny mistakes that
any webmaster can make no matter how careful
they are.
However, no matter how small the mistake
is the affects are disastrous to your sites
effectiveness. For example a spider
trap occurs when a search engine spider gets
stuck somewhere in your site. This
leads to the spider not discovering the
entirety of your site rendering your hard
work useless, since it won't be indexed.
OptiSpider alerts you to existing
spider traps on your site.
Same goes for missing or mislabeled pages
and links, OptiSpider scans every URL on
your site and provides you with a list of
each pages title. This way you can
easily see if you left out labeling a page
since it will be called Untitled Document.
You'll also see which pages come up as not
found by the 404 error that OptiSpider
reports.
OptiSpider is a great tool to double
check your site's search engine optimization
since any error you make ultimately hurts
you in the rankings. It's foolish to
think that you don't make these kinds of
errors especially if you have a large site.
For example this website has over 150
pages with around 1,500 links. When I
ran OptiSpider on my website it quickly
showed me where links weren't matched up to
title pages and even found pages that were
created but were not linked. This is
something that I never would have discovered
on my own.
OptiSpider is a very useful and
time saving tool that is necessary for
anyone serious about maintaining a website
and an online business. Linking errors
that you make may seem trivial but they add
up and hurt the page rank of your website.
OptiSpider lets you see what the search
engines will before they penalize your
website.
OptiSpider is only $98 and comes with
Leslie Rohde's standard 90 day money back
guarantee and a free demo trial.
However the demo doesn't really do
OptiSpider justice since it only scans up to
5 pages, and not your entire site like the
full version does.
Screenshot
OptiSpider
OptiSpider simulates a
search engines crawl through your
website reporting linking errors,
missing or incorrect page/link titles,
link counts, link popularity, link
reputation, link text, inbound/outbound
links, and can even create a full site
map at the click of a button.
OptiSpider costs $98.