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HTML Problems Can Prevent Indexing
This is a common problem. Your web designer has created a beautiful page with nice graphics and great Flash animations. Unfortunately, it seems that search engines won’t list your website no matter what you do.

This can have several reasons:

1. The HTML Code Of Your Web Pages Is Meaningless To Search Engines
   Search engines use very simple software programs to index your web pages. A web page that looks great to the human eye can be totally meaningless to search engines.

   Search engines cannot see content that is presented in images (GIF, JPEG, PNG, etc.), Flash elements, JavaScript and other script languages or other multimedia file formats.

   If you use JavaScript links for your website navigation then search engines might not be able to find your website page.

   Solution: Check your web pages with a search engine spider simulator. Spider simulators will show you how search engines see your web site.

   If you use IBP’s search engine spider simulator, you can even enter the name of the spider, so that you can test if Google and Yahoo get different results when they visit your web pages.

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