Some Tools Not Recognizing Meta Tags

[ABK717]

I am analyzing a site which has several thousands of pages, checking the headers, meta tags, and other on page factors. I noticed that the spider tool on SEO Book (http://tools.seobook.com/general/spider-test) does not seem to recognize the meta tags for various pages. However, using other tools including Moz, it seems the meta tags are being recognized.

I wouldn't be as concerned with why a tool is not picking up the tags. But, the site suffered a large traffic loss and we're still trying to figure out what remaining issues need to be addressed. Also, many of those pages once ranked in Google and now cannot be found unless you do a site:// search.

Is it possible that there is something blocking where various tools or crawlers can easily read them, but other tools cannot. This would seem very strange to me, but the above is what I've witnessed recently.

Your suggestions and feedback are appreciated, especially as this site continues to battle Panda.

[eyepaq]

Hi.

Can you give some exact examples ? It will be easier to look into.

Cheers.

[ABK717]

Sure. Try going to http://tools.seobook.com/general/spider-test to run a test on:

http://www.maxandchloe.com/bridal-jewelry

http://www.maxandchloe.com/nashelle

These are just two example where the meta tags nor text on the page seems to be getting picked up.

[eyepaq]

Hi,

I just run those with Screaming Frig - as a basic crawler - all is good. Source code also looks ok. There are no issues there - you should be safe.

I see the issues on the seobook crwler - it's for sure an issue there not on your side.

Cheers.