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Whenever you enter a query in a search engine and hit ‘enter’ you get a list of web
results that contain that query term. Users normally tend to visit websites that are
at the top of this list as they perceive those to be more relevant to the query. If you
have ever wondered why some of these websites rank better than the others then
you must know that it is because of a powerful web marketing technique called
Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

SEO is a technique which helps search engines find and rank your site higher than
the millions of other sites in response to a search query. SEO thus helps you get
traffic from search engines.

This SEO tutorial covers all the necessary information you need to know about
Search Engine Optimization – what is it, how does it work and differences in the
ranking criteria of major search engines.
1. How Search Engines Work

The first basic truth you need to know to learn SEO is that search engines are not
humans. While this might be obvious for everybody, the differences between how
humans and search engines view web pages aren’t. Unlike humans, search engines
are text-driven. Although technology advances rapidly, search engines are far from
intelligent creatures that can feel the beauty of a cool design or enjoy the sounds
and movement in movies. Instead, search engines crawl the Web, looking at
particular site items (mainly text) to get an idea what a site is about. This brief
explanation is not the most precise because as we will see next, search engines
perform several activities in order to deliver search results –
crawling, indexing, processing, calculating relevancy, and retrieving.
First, search engines crawl the Web to see what is there. This task is performed by a
piece of software, called a crawler or a spider (or Googlebot, as is the case with
Google). Spiders follow links from one page to another and index everything they
find on their way. Having in mind the number of pages on the Web (over 20
billion), it is impossible for a spider to visit a site daily just to see if a new page has
appeared or if an existing page has been modified, sometimes crawlers may not
end up visiting your site for a month or two.

What you can do is to check what a crawler sees from your site. As already
mentioned, crawlers are not humans and they do not see images, Flash
movies, JavaScript, frames, password-protected pages and directories, so if you
have tons of these on your site, you’d better run the Spider Simulator below to see
if these goodies are viewable by the spider. If they are not viewable, they will not be
spidered, not indexed, not processed, etc. – in a word they will be non-existent for
search engines.
After a page is crawled, the next step is to index its content. The indexed page is
stored in a giant database, from where it can later be retrieved. Essentially, the
process of indexing is identifying the words and expressions that best describe the
page and assigning the page to particular keywords. For a human it will not be
possible to process such amounts of information but generally search engines deal
just fine with this task. Sometimes they might not get the meaning of a page right
but if you help them by optimizing it, it will be easier for them to classify your
pages correctly and for you – to get higher rankings.

When a search request comes, the search engine processes it – i.e. it compares the
search string in the search request with the indexed pages in the database. Since it
is likely that more than one page (practically it is millions of pages) contains the
search string, the search engine starts calculating the relevancy of each of the
pages in its index with the search string.
There are various algorithms to calculate relevancy. Each of these algorithms has
different relative weights for common factors like keyword density, links, or
metatags. That is why different search engines give different search results pages
for the same search string. What is more, it is a known fact that all major search
engines, like Yahoo!, Google, Bing, etc. periodically change their algorithms and if
you want to keep at the top, you also need to adapt your pages to the latest
changes. This is one reason (the other is your competitors) to devote permanent
efforts to SEO, if you’d like to be at the top.

The last step in search engines’ activity is retrieving the results. Basically, it is
nothing more than simply displaying them in the browser – i.e. the endless pages
of search results that are sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant sites.
2. Differences Between the Major Search Engines

Although the basic principle of operation of all search engines is the same, the
minor differences between them lead to major changes in results relevancy. For
different search engines different factors are important. There were times, when
SEO experts joked that the algorithms of Bing are intentionally made just the
opposite of those of Google. While this might have a grain of truth, it is a matter a
fact that the major search engines like different stuff and if you plan to conquer
more than one of them, you need to optimize carefully.

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What is seo

  • 2. Whenever you enter a query in a search engine and hit ‘enter’ you get a list of web results that contain that query term. Users normally tend to visit websites that are at the top of this list as they perceive those to be more relevant to the query. If you have ever wondered why some of these websites rank better than the others then you must know that it is because of a powerful web marketing technique called Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEO is a technique which helps search engines find and rank your site higher than the millions of other sites in response to a search query. SEO thus helps you get traffic from search engines. This SEO tutorial covers all the necessary information you need to know about Search Engine Optimization – what is it, how does it work and differences in the ranking criteria of major search engines.
  • 3. 1. How Search Engines Work The first basic truth you need to know to learn SEO is that search engines are not humans. While this might be obvious for everybody, the differences between how humans and search engines view web pages aren’t. Unlike humans, search engines are text-driven. Although technology advances rapidly, search engines are far from intelligent creatures that can feel the beauty of a cool design or enjoy the sounds and movement in movies. Instead, search engines crawl the Web, looking at particular site items (mainly text) to get an idea what a site is about. This brief explanation is not the most precise because as we will see next, search engines perform several activities in order to deliver search results – crawling, indexing, processing, calculating relevancy, and retrieving.
  • 4. First, search engines crawl the Web to see what is there. This task is performed by a piece of software, called a crawler or a spider (or Googlebot, as is the case with Google). Spiders follow links from one page to another and index everything they find on their way. Having in mind the number of pages on the Web (over 20 billion), it is impossible for a spider to visit a site daily just to see if a new page has appeared or if an existing page has been modified, sometimes crawlers may not end up visiting your site for a month or two. What you can do is to check what a crawler sees from your site. As already mentioned, crawlers are not humans and they do not see images, Flash movies, JavaScript, frames, password-protected pages and directories, so if you have tons of these on your site, you’d better run the Spider Simulator below to see if these goodies are viewable by the spider. If they are not viewable, they will not be spidered, not indexed, not processed, etc. – in a word they will be non-existent for search engines.
  • 5. After a page is crawled, the next step is to index its content. The indexed page is stored in a giant database, from where it can later be retrieved. Essentially, the process of indexing is identifying the words and expressions that best describe the page and assigning the page to particular keywords. For a human it will not be possible to process such amounts of information but generally search engines deal just fine with this task. Sometimes they might not get the meaning of a page right but if you help them by optimizing it, it will be easier for them to classify your pages correctly and for you – to get higher rankings. When a search request comes, the search engine processes it – i.e. it compares the search string in the search request with the indexed pages in the database. Since it is likely that more than one page (practically it is millions of pages) contains the search string, the search engine starts calculating the relevancy of each of the pages in its index with the search string.
  • 6. There are various algorithms to calculate relevancy. Each of these algorithms has different relative weights for common factors like keyword density, links, or metatags. That is why different search engines give different search results pages for the same search string. What is more, it is a known fact that all major search engines, like Yahoo!, Google, Bing, etc. periodically change their algorithms and if you want to keep at the top, you also need to adapt your pages to the latest changes. This is one reason (the other is your competitors) to devote permanent efforts to SEO, if you’d like to be at the top. The last step in search engines’ activity is retrieving the results. Basically, it is nothing more than simply displaying them in the browser – i.e. the endless pages of search results that are sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant sites.
  • 7. 2. Differences Between the Major Search Engines Although the basic principle of operation of all search engines is the same, the minor differences between them lead to major changes in results relevancy. For different search engines different factors are important. There were times, when SEO experts joked that the algorithms of Bing are intentionally made just the opposite of those of Google. While this might have a grain of truth, it is a matter a fact that the major search engines like different stuff and if you plan to conquer more than one of them, you need to optimize carefully. Read the Remaining Article At: http://seobuzzy.com/what-is-seo-a-brief- discription/