How To "See" What's Really Going On With Your Website
Skip | 05 February, 2005 19:29
Have you ever wondered what goes on under the covers on your website, or any other website? Are there redirects? Doorway pages? Here's a great tool to help.
Many of us at one time or another have to move our website to a new host. Or sometimes we're involved, or find a website that we want to checkout. But perhaps you cannot tell exactly what's going on with it.
One way you can do that is by using an HTTP header viewer.
Rex Swain offers a fantastic, free http viewer here.
Enter a URl in the main box, select your options and you can see exactly what is going on. For example, if you have moved web hosts and are in between the DNS switch, you can go to Rex's site and see what his DNS shows as the underlaying IP address. Or you can see if your old redirect (301 or 302) is doing it's proper job.
Perhaps you visit a website URL but your browser ends up at a whole different URL. Use Rex's tool to see what's going on under there.
Lastly, you can use his tool to see what a search engine spider sees, in the raw.
Nothing better!
Skip
Many of us at one time or another have to move our website to a new host. Or sometimes we're involved, or find a website that we want to checkout. But perhaps you cannot tell exactly what's going on with it.
One way you can do that is by using an HTTP header viewer.
Rex Swain offers a fantastic, free http viewer here.
Enter a URl in the main box, select your options and you can see exactly what is going on. For example, if you have moved web hosts and are in between the DNS switch, you can go to Rex's site and see what his DNS shows as the underlaying IP address. Or you can see if your old redirect (301 or 302) is doing it's proper job.
Perhaps you visit a website URL but your browser ends up at a whole different URL. Use Rex's tool to see what's going on under there.
Lastly, you can use his tool to see what a search engine spider sees, in the raw.
Nothing better!
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