Google's Webmaster Tools Rolls Out Content Analysis
Google's Webmaster Tools now has more tools to help website owners to find SEO problems on their pages.The new Content Analysis feature will list any problems Google finds when incdexing a site's pages. Google will specify the problem and link to the age so you can correct the errors.
Content Analysis focuses heavily on title tags, addressing missing, duplicate and non-informative title tags.
It also has a long title tag and short title tag notification. A title that's too long gets chopped off the search result listings, which looks bad and reduces the number of people who're likely to click on your listing. A title tag that's too short doesn't give Google enough to work with, forcing them to grab your title from somewhere else, like your DMOZ listing. In our experience, the ideal title tag is at least 20 characters and not more than 65.
Content Analysis will also alert you if your meta descriptions are too long or short.
Finally there is a non-indexable content alert, if Google can't find anything on a page to index eg if the page is wholly flash, if spiders can't access a page r if the page is blank.
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