How Do Search Engines Work - Web Crawlers
Most of your prospective customers will find your website through a search engine. Understanding how search engines work and how they find and present information is vital to your long term business success.
Search engines use crawlers or spiders to index websites. When a search engine discovers your website, either through an incoming link or from a submission by you, it will send crawler to catalog all the pages on your site. These crawlers are completely automated. The crawler visits your site, reads the contents, titles, meta tags, links and will also follow links on your site. When it’s finished, the crawler will return the information back to a central depository, where the data is indexed for quick access later. The crawler will index any of the sites you link to as well. Some search engines limit the number of pages per site that are indexed, so if you want everything indexed, keep your site small!
The spider will periodically return to the site to check for any information that has changed. The frequency with which this happens is determined by the moderators of the search engine.
A crawler can index up to a million pages every day and it is creating a copy of your sites table of contents, content, links and references for later use by web searchers.
Examples of search engines that use spiders: Excite, Lycos, AltaVista and Google.
When a web surfer asks a search engine to locate information on keywords, the search engine checks it’s index and local copies of your site, it doesn’t search the web. The reason for different rankings on different sites is because each search engine uses different algorithms to search its own depositories.
Search engines use a lot of different ways to determine how to rank a site, some use frequency and location of keywords, but most of them put a special emphasis on the anchor text of incoming links. By determining what words people use to link to your site, it then figures out what your site is about and which search terms to rank it highly for.
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