Hi, I hope everyone had a great Christmas. I had to put the website work away last week, so I wouldn't miss the Holiday.
In reference to the Webmaster Toolkit, I was working through Brad Callens free course, and in lesson 2 he gives a link to this site to get the "spiders" view of your web pages. Its called the Search Engine Simulator. When you plug in a URL, it will show you what your page looks like to the spider; tell you what the search engines like; and whether or not your pages reflect these qualities.
But there is much more at the site... tools, generators and utilities.
The one that was most inspiring to me was the Web Page Ananlyzer, because I have a Blog (Blogger.com) for my site and the analyzer was telling me I had things missing. This tool prompted me to research how to get keyword and description tags into my pages and I had been wanting to figure that out. For anyone with a Blogger site that is interested, here is a code you place between the <head> tags of your template:
<meta name="keywords" content="<$BlogPageTitle$>"/>
<meta name="description" content="<BlogPageTitle$>"/>
(from the author of this code):
"This made it so that the
title of each blog listing would become the description and keywords; this promoted dynamic tags throughout the site. Quickly, Google updated its index and I had no more "omitted results""
What this does to my site is add the page title to the Blog Description and the description and keywords change (a little) for each page. So, I need to keep my titles "keyword rich". I am such a newborn at this thing and I hardly know anything... but it makes sense to me to do this. If anyone knows contrary, please let me know. Thanks.
-Jeannie
http://colloidal-silver-bullet.blogspot.com 
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