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Understanding The Game Of Search Engines
hen I started my it is the place from where all of
e-business, I ask my us get our business.
web-designer friend to
make a site which is really Every search engine has it's own
brainstorming. He did me a great criterion of ranking and it's
favor and really made an clear from the fact that when you
excellent site. My site's design do a search on Yahoo or Google or
is fabulous, it's graphics are any other search engines there
mind blowing and coding is results vary. Here is the listing
superb. But now what? What I seen of some of the Top Search Engines
in the coming days, I am not and a few noteworthy points about
earning a single penny because no all of them. Know which engines
one is visiting my site. get you more bangs for the buck?
I think for a while that why all Google
this is happening, then I make a
search on Yahoo and see the first Google has increased in
site which is coming on the top. popularity tenfold the past
It doesn't have a good design several years. They have gone
like mine but still he is making from beta testing, to becoming
good money. Then I came to know the Internet's largest index of
that the site's design is web pages in a very short time.
meaningless if site's ranking on Their spider, affectionately
search engines is not good. named "Googlebot", crawls the web
and provides updates to Google's
When it comes to search engine index about once a month.
every ear just not hears it but
listens it's every aspect and try Google.com began as an academic
to locate it's presence in his search engine. Google, by far,
site. Well why not it be done as has a very good algorithm of
ranking pages returned from a editor, and if approved will
result, probably one of the main appear in the next index update.
reasons it has become so popular
over the years. Google has AltaVista
several methods which determine
page rank in returned searches. Many who have access to web logs
may have seen a spider named
Yahoo 'scooter' accessing their pages.
Scooter used to be AltaVista's
Yahoo! is one of the oldest web robot. However, since the Feb
directories and portals on the 2001 site update, a newer form of
Internet today, and the site went Scooter is now crawling the web.
live in August of 1994. Yahoo! is Whichever spider AltaVista uses,
a 100% human edited directory, it is one of the largest search
and provides secondary search engines on the net today, next to
results using Google. Google.
Yahoo! is also one of the largest It will usually take several
traffic generators around, as far months for AltaVista to index
as web directories and search your entire site, although the
engines go. Unfortunately, past few months scooter hasn't
however, it is also one of the been deep crawling too well.
most difficult to get listed in, Unlike Google, AltaVista will
unless of course you pay to only crawl and index 1 link deep,
submit your site. Even if you pay so it takes a good amount of time
it doesn't guarantee you will get to index your site depending on
listed. how large your site is.
Either way, if you suggest a URL, AltaVista gets most of its
it is "reviewed" by a Yahoo! results from its own index,
however they do pull the top 5 Inktomi provides results to a
results of each search from number of sites. Some of these
Overture (formerly Goto). are America Online, MSN, Hotbot,
Looksmart, About, Goto, CNet,
Inktomi Geocities, NBCi, ICQ and many
more.
Inktomi's popularity grew several
years ago as they powered the Lycos
secondary search database that
had driven Yahoo. Since then, Lycos is one of the oldest search
Yahoo as switched to using Google engines on the Internet today,
as their secondary search and next to Altavista and Yahoo.
backend database, however Inktomi Their spider, named "T-Rex",
is just as popular now, as they crawls the web and provides
were several years ago, if not updates to the Lycos index from
more so. time to time. The FAST crawler
provides results for Lycos in
Their spiders are named "Slurp", addition to its own database.
and different versions of Slurp
crawls the web many different The Lycos crawler does not weigh
times throughout the month, as META tags too heavily, instead it
Inktomi powers many sites search relies on its own ranking
results. There isn't much more to algorithm to rank pages returned
Inktomi then that. Slurp puts in results. The URL, META title,
heavy weight on Title and text headings, and word frequency
description tags, and will rarely are just a few of the methods
deep crawl a site. Slurp usually Lycos uses to rank pages. Lycos
only spider's pages that are does support pages with Frame
submitted to its index. content. However, any page that
isn't at least 75 words in
content is not indexed. submit your site. If your site is
generally non-business related,
Excite you can submit your site to Zeal
(Looksmart's sister site), or if
Excite has been around the web you are a business, you can pay a
for many years now. Much more of fee to have your site listed.
a portal than just simply a Either method will get you listed
search engine, Excite used to be in Looksmart and its partner
a fairly popular search engine, sites if you are approved.
until companies such as Google
seemed to have dominated the Once you have submitted your
search engine market. As of site, and it is approved for
recently, Excite no longer listing it will take up to about
accepts submissions of URL's, and 7 days for your site to be listed
appears to no longer spider. To on Looksmart and its partner
get into the Excite search sites.
results, you need to be either
listed with Overture or Inktomi. AOL Search
Looksmart America Online signed a multiyear
pact with Google for Web search
Getting a listed with Looksmart results and accompanying
could mean getting a good amount ad-sponsored links, ending
of traffic to your site. relationships with
Looksmart's results appear in pay-for-performance service
many search engines, including Overture Services and Inktomi,
AltaVista, MSN, CNN, and many its algorithmic search provider
others. of nearly three years.
Looksmart has two options to Ok, now you have got a better
understanding of search engine's right? So take some time to
game and finally you come to know register with these search
which search engine is best for engines as soon as possible and
you and which one is leading in watch the traffic grow.
today's Internet World. In
nutshell, the thing which every Copyright 2005 Raamakant S.
e-entrepreneur wants is Top
Search Engine Ranking. Isn't it
About the Author:
Raamakant S. is Author of "The e Success Code". An "entire Internet Marketing Encyclopedia" covers almost every topic of Internet marketing. If you've ever dreamed of having your own Internet Business that produces thousands of dollars each and every month, visit: http://www.theesuccesscode.com/
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