It is quite amazing now a day the numbers of sites that goes up each day. However most of those site owners are only knowledgeable of how to build a site. Most of them do not have a sense of understanding, on how search engines actually work and do not know about web crawlers.

All in all, we all know that ranking high on search engines is the major source in bringing prospective customers and viewers to your site. So why not learn a little more about how search engines work.

Search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, utilizes what they call “spiders or crawlers” to index websites into their search database. When a site owner performs a directory submission of their site, the search engine spider is the one responsible in indexing your website. The “spider” is an automatic program generated by the search engine companies. This spider algorithm visits a website, crawls and remembers all the contents of the site, including the site’s Meta tags, and follows the links that the website connects to. Once this task is completed, the Spider returns all valuable data to its database and enters it in to the search engine system to be included in the listing. Keep in mind that spiders will only index a certain number of links from your site, so please keep it average and not include 300 pages or so.

Think of the spider as an inspector, it will always come back to your site to inspect any changes that has been done over a period of the time. This period of time depends on when the site moderator informs the spider on when changes usually occur, it can be everyday, every week, every month, etc.

Please keep in mind that every search engine have different spider algorithm. When a search is being requested from the search engine, it locates information thru site index and not searching through the web. Also remember that spiders scan for the frequency and location of the keywords on a web page. It also detects any violations done on the site such as keyword stuffing or spamdexing.  

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