Comments on: Does Google look at your Website Generator?

By: Hummerbie

Hummerbie — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:22:39 +0000

@Club Penguin, yes there are several options:
http://www.pathos-seo.com/seo-website-tools/how-does-a-search-engine-spider-see-your-website.html for an online check

You can use Opera like I wrote on at http://blog.hummerbie.com/why-i-love-opera/

or you can download Lynx from http://lynx.isc.org/current/ but thats more for really frequent use.

Personaly I prefer the Opera Browser for these kind of checks

By: Club Penguin

Club Penguin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:50:10 +0000

Isn’t there a way or a program you can check your site to see it like google sees it?

By: Hummerbie

Hummerbie — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:29:41 +0000

@Bidless

No, Joomla 1.5 has the line still in it, but there is a patch already…
For more infor read my post http://blog.design-cars.com/joomla-15-rc4-released-and-the-sef-patch-for-it/

By: BidLess

BidLess — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:19:39 +0000

Thanks for the lead on the Joomla SEF patch from Joomlatwork.com; i’ve wondered how to get rid of that line…hoping they have a 1.5 native version?!? Thanks again!

By: Hummerbie

Hummerbie — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:02:10 +0000

@ D.Shaun,

I corrected your spelling, just as you mentioned, you do now how to write…

The Fun part of the Story is that Matt Cutts in his Latest Presentation on WordPress Blogging request the WordPress builders to get rid of the Generator Tag…. for Security reasons, but still…

By: D. Shaun Morgan

D. Shaun Morgan — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:45:00 +0000

I have noticed that Google ranks sites that I code from scratch much better in the serps than the one I launch using Wordpress. Not sure about Joomla or Drupal. Joomla and the like are a bit too heavy (too much for one person) , in my opinion, for the lone webmaster.

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By: Hummerbie

Hummerbie — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:56:30 +0000

@ScottH

Good thinking,
Although most “real” Spam sites will use a system that does not have the generator content Tag enclosed.

But what about pages at .blogspot.com?
Which is really becoming the greatest spam site off all..

Do you see theme ranking well? with a few exceptions that is, most of them are not found in the indexes, not even in Google itself!
And they do have a key: < meta content='blogger' name='generator'/ > :-)

Does that key still comes with the pages if you host them on you own domain? And does that hurt you?
If someone knows the answer to that question, would be nice to know!

By: ScottH

ScottH — Thu, 24 May 2007 02:57:12 +0000

I’ve been thinking about this recently – how google profiles “spammy” sites and how that might affect “non-spammy” sites.

For instance if a lot of spammy sites start using one type of software, like say WordPress for example, would that become one factor in a profile that might drag sites down in a certain context.

I’m not saying it would be a massive effect but proclaiming your generator in the metatags may have unintended consequences when combined with another “bad” characteristic like the creation of a lot of content to start a website. Just a thought…

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