Search engine spiders follow a standard operating procedure (SOP): they visit websites around the Internet, collect information about them in an index, and then use a variety of algorithms to rank and categorize these pages based on various criteria.

Search engines’ ranking and relevancy algorithms may vary greatly, but their indexing practices are generally consistent, so it’s crucial to understand what the spiders look for and what they ignore.

Web pages’ text content is typically the only thing that spider bots can index.

However, most search engine bots cannot index media files such as photos, flash objects, videos, and anything produced by client-side scripts (such as JavaScript).

By presenting a webpage’s raw text content with keywords highlighted, this Webpage Spider View Tool mimics a search engine.