search engine spider is get their URLs listed in the top
actually just a server web site positions. Also the
based software application different search engines have
that is designed to compile and different criteria for how they
maintain search engine databases. rank information and might have
They are also known as robots. to do with their database’s
These applications were nicknamed needs. One search engine may rank
spiders because they craw the your site in terms of its content
“web” looking for information to and yet another may be more
add to the search engine’s interested in the number of links
database. you have and yet another may be
interested in how many hits you
In theory a search engine spider are getting.
does it s job by following
networks of links to find and In theory a search engine spider
then grab information from your could do any one of several
web site pages. Each search things when it visits your web
engine (such as Google, Excite, page. Some spiders simply confirm
Alta Vista, Lycos etc.) has its the existence of the page without
own criteria for how it spiders indexing it. Some spiders index
information. This criterion is the page content. Yet others will
put together into a specific identify all of the hyperlinks
algorithm that helps the search you have on a page to other web
engine determine where your site resources and also other pages on
fits in its ranking system. The your site. A spider may visit
problem of second guessing search your pages once or it may visit
engine spiders is that they are it several times.
always changing the requirements
of this algorithm so web masters One of the latest trends is to
are always second guessing how to keep your index pages lively by
adding up to 50 to 70 new bytes follow. The rules change along
of information regularly. This is with the changing needs of the
because the Alta Vista pages love spiders.
fresh content. This is what makes
SEO techniques so interesting to
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