Thursday, August 30, 2007

What is the Algorithms and Crawlers ?

Even SEO is the one most important thing that needed for sites traffic, but some of us don't realize is that not everyone knows even the basics of SEO. This is the list of Search Engines technical term that you’ll need to know to intelligently engage the ever-changing world of SEO.

Algorithms
A search algorithm is, in short, the incredibly complex mathematical formula that a search engine uses to "rank" web sites for keywords. Based on a huge number of variables and calculations, algorithms are among the most closely-guarded secrets on the internet. Why? Imagine if they were leaked - suddenly the less-than-honest would have a very specific guideline to follow in climbing to the top of search results in a less-than-organic way, ruining the quality of Google's search results and their entire competitive advantage with it.

Crawlers
Also same known as Robots, Spiders, Bot or Bots. Googlebot, for example, is a search engine crawler. Googlebot periodically traverses the web in record time, indexing content, links or/and everything contained in page source code and storing it in Google's search index. Then, when a user visits Google and enters a search phrase, the index, filtered by the algorithm, is what the user gets. Please note: there is some delay in this process since the results you're getting are from the index and not the live web.

These are the words and phrases that newcomers have the most trouble with; and hope these definitions can help the person have a better understanding of SEO

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