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Understanding What Exactly A Search Engine Can See On Your Site

Posted on Aug 25, 2011 in Search Engines | 0 comments

Understanding What Exactly A Search Engine Can See On Your Site

Search engine crawlers and robots are just software applications. That said, they are very powerful programs.  All the major search engines crawl, copy and index billions of pages across the globe. They then perform incredibly complicated analysis not just on the pages, but also how they all link to each other. All this information is organised in very large data stores, that are additionally replicated across global data centres to make the search service as speedy to the user as current technology allows. As it stands, the most users get responses to their search queries in time measured in tenths of a second. For most of us, the connection to the internet, and not the search engine’s servers that is the bottleneck.

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Search Engine Crawling and Indexing

Posted on Aug 7, 2011 in Search Engines | 0 comments

Search Engine Crawling and Indexing

You really cannot begin any SEO effort until you have at least a basic understanding of how search engines craw, index and rank the millions of websites on the internet. The big search engines operate in pretty much the same way, so the information contained in this article will apply equally to Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft’s Bing.

WWW is an acronym for “World Wide Web”. The easiest way to understand how search engines work, is to think of the internet as a web. A web not too dissimilar to a spider web. In this web, many documents are interconnected, both within a site, and also with other sites on the internet.

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