TIP: Before you submit a site for review do this...

[mjtaylor]

Bobby site is down. Plus Report card did not return a result for my site.

Thanks ... I greyed out the bobby site and will remove it if it's still not there sometime in the not too distant future. The Site Report card worked for me, and I am grateful. I had a broken link on my home page!

[dagaul101]

It's always a great idea to check the validator at w3 can be frustating getting your page to validate, but at least you will eliminate any spidering issue

[deepsand]

It's always a great idea to check the validator at w3 can be frustating getting your page to validate, but at least you will eliminate any spidering issue

Not necessarily the case.

A crawler/robot/spider does no more than simply request a resource; whether or not such requests succeed or fail are wholly independent of the data contained within said resource.

Parsing of such data is performed by the indexing engine; and, as are browsers, such engines are very good at distinguishing between code and contextual data. As it is the latter alone that is indexed, whether or not the former is compliant with any standard is irrelevant.

If a text only browser, such as LYNX, can properly display the textual content of a page, an SE's indexing engine will have no problem with it.

[Hamilton]

Tip: Before you submit a site for review here do this..

Check your site at http://www.sitereportcard.com and keep tweaking until you get 'perfect' on all checks.

Check your site at http://validator.w3.org and don't stop tweaking until your site validates. Flash insertion probably exempt(?).

Check your site on http://www.instantposition.com for the first 5 of your keywords.

Check your site on http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp (Moderator note: Greyed out as this site was reported as down as of 10-07-2010)

Survive these and the world is your mollusc, if your site looks good too.

By following these tips (and others?) you will focus your reviews on the appearance of your website instead of the objective problems.

There maybe site checks I've missed but surely they will be listed below.

Good Luck.

This is going to save me a lot of time and the seniors on this board countless minutes of frustration having to explain the details to me, thanks!

[Islandvacations]

Thanks Tim for the very useful suggestions. Tried the sitereportcard.com and found it very useful. I just don't know how to make adjustments on the Load Time Check where I failed miserably at 1/10. Can you help me please?

[deepsand]

I just don't know how to make adjustments on the Load Time Check where I failed miserably at 1/10. Can you help me please?

Take a look at Google Labs new Page Speed Online tool.

[mak_capri]

Take a look at Google Labs new Page Speed Online[/B][/url] tool.

My website got an overall PageSpeed Score of 55 (out of 100). Is it Good?

[deepsand]

My website got an overall PageSpeed Score of 55 (out of 100). Is it Good?

Can't say, as that score is not a measurement of actual load time.

PageSpeed Score explained

The PageSpeed Score indicates how much faster a page could be. A high score indicates little room for improvement, while a lower score indicates more room for improvement. The PageSpeed Score does not measure the time it takes for a page to load.