here are hundreds of Many search engines won't even
search engines available touch your meta tags so it is
today, but some are far important that you have the same
more complex than others. This information in your body that you
article will give you an overview have in your meta tags (although
of how some of the most popular you obviously cannot simply enter
ones work. lists and lists of key words as
this would be detrimental to your
Let's start with a smaller site's content).
engine: InfoSeek. They only index
about 200 words of your web page, The AltaVista search engine will
so it's important to make sure send Scooter, its spider, to
that you have meta tags on your check out your entire site.
site, and that the most important Scooter can take as long as three
things are listed first. The months to spider and fully index
information you put in your meta your site - the average spider
tags will be used to display a only takes 6-8 weeks. Scooter
description of your site, and will normally spider somewhere
most meta tags can contain about between two and ten pages from
200 characters of text. The your site each week. This means
keywords meta tag, however, can that the longer that your web
have up to 1,000 characters. site lasts, the better it will be
indexed which is in example of
These simple rules are important how search engines implement
to keep in mind for all search Darwin's Theory into their
engines. The more important that ideology.
the information is, the closer it
has to be to the beginning of Excite used to be a search
your meta tags or even the powerhouse, but has now been
beginning of your site's content. dropped as the provider of AOL
and Netscape search, so it's less different way. As a general rule
important than it once was. The of thumb, your site will be
algorithm it uses to determine indexed in Lycos in due time as
keyword relevance is very long as you get indexed in ODP
complicated: it indexes your and AllTheWeb.
pages and then attempts to
summarize them by selecting only Even though WebCrawler is owned
the most relevant sentences. by Excite, it still has its own
Expect to have your pages search engine and indexer. If you
reviewed roughly once every two happen to be listed with
weeks. Keep in mind, though, that WebCrawler, you should try to
with meta tags have no meaning to stay listed with them, as it
Excite when it comes to rankings, isn't the easiest search engine
even though it will use your to get listed with. Its
description tags as long as the hit-and-miss standards combined
words are relevant to your pages' with the sporadic indexing
content. methods makes the submission
process tough, although not
Let's move on to Lycos. Lycos has impossible.
fully integrated the Open
Directory Project (ODP) into The biggest player is, of course,
their mainstream results pages, Google, who use a page ranking
and they also use search results system as the central basis of
from AllTheWeb. Lycos also runs their index. It was once nearly
click-throughs to their sister impossible to manipulate this
site HotBot. Lycos is one of the page ranking system to drive up
harder search engines to your rankings, but people quickly
understand, as their submission figured out that the more links
pages say one thing but then they they could generate to their site
index your site in a completely on the rest of the net, the
better Google ranked them. Google will receive from search engines.
is not thought to be using MSN will generally be the first
context-sensitive rankings. search engine to index your site
Context-sensitive information is and it will almost certainly list
used at Yahoo, Looksmart and the the most pages the fastest.
ODP, however, and Google
regularly spiders those sites Although no-one can tell you
when it re-indexes its own exactly when you will be indexed
database. on any search engine, it's best
to check back at least weekly.
MSN is another important search Whatever you do, though, don't
engine. The holy trinity of re-submit your site more often
search engines at the moment is than every two months or so - you
Google, Yahoo!, and MSN. These might not get indexed at all if
three search engines combine to you do this.
provide you with the vast
majority of the traffic that you
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