Search Engine Optimization

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What is a Search Engine?

Search engine companies use thousands of computers with software programs (known as "spiders" or "robots") that travel through links tofind allof the web pages on the Internet. The spiders "read" the information they find, and store it in a huge database. When someone goes toa search engine (like Google) and enters a word or phrase, the search engine finds websites, ranked according totheir importance. Each website's importance is determined by complex algorithms that take into account the keyword content on the page, its META Tags, Meta Titles, and the links toyour site on other websites. The algorithms are somewhat mysterious and constantly changing. The search engines constantly refine their algorithms in an attempt tocreate better search results for its users and tokeep out websites that are trying tocheat the system.

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Last update: 2010-09-18 20:56
Author: WebBuilder Support
Revision: 1.2

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