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Reality Bytes: Understanding How Search Engines Work
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Getting the best out of Search Engine Optimization means understanding how
search engines work. The basic premise of knowing search engines is that it does not see websites as we view them. From our stand point, we appreciate the website’s graphics, the colors, the contents, and all other things that tickle our imagination. Search engines sees websites based on the text that they contain. They crawl different websites to see what useful things they contain. They base their judgment on the contents of the website. That’s just one part of several other things that they do: * Crawl * Index * Process * Calculate * Determine Relevance * Retrieve Search engines will make use of crawlers or spiders to explore the billions of pages on the internet. These are computer software which is specifically designed to roam around the internet, crawl into every known web page, and index all their findings. Given the number of websites, spiders cannot visit your web page each day to find out what is new or what has been updated, so there will be days when you have to be sufficed that you are doing the necessary SEO work. There are tools that you can find in the internet to find out what these search engine spiders are looking for. There are simulators that can tell you what the spiders appreciate. If you have all the glitter of flash movies and images but the spiders can not see them, then they do not count. What cannot be seen by the spider cannot benefit you to get the better ranking from the search engines. The search engines make use of what they find by indexing relevant information in a database. Indexing involves tagging the words that best describe your website. These keywords will be associated to your website and will be retrieved when one searches for these keywords. Optimizing your website with the right keywords will help search engines index your website and give it a higher ranking. When a person types a phrase to be looked for, the search engine will process
it. Processing of information entails comparing the word or phrase entered against all information that is indexed in its database. We will be looking at millions of matches so the search engine makes our lives easy by calculating for the relevancy of the websites to what we are searching for. How the search engine does this is a very complicated process that involves keyword density, links, metatags, and a lot more factors. Search engines have different algorithm to come up with the results, thus we are given different options by Google, Yahoo!, MSN, etc. From time to time, the search engines also alter their formula to determine the relevance of the websites so it is very important that you have an SEO plan to keep pace with any development. SEO will make sure that you are among the top search results. Once the search engine has determined the right websites that you might be looking for, it then retrieves that data and displays on our browser the lists of web pages which we can choose from. |
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