How search Engines work: Web Insite Inc.
When I speak of search engines I am referring to both crawl based and human powered types of search engines. Both search the internet but use completely different methods.
When a crawl based type of search engine crawls or indexes your web site using spiders or bots they store your information on its relevancy.
If your website should add more content or keywords or change anything that is pertinent to that industry, search engines like google will crawl your site again and update or index your information for the next time someone searches what it is that you’re displaying on your site.
Crawl based search engines have three parts that work to ensure its information is updated. The first being the spider or bot. This spider reads your site information like title, tags, links, content, keywords etc...then follows the links to other locations for verification of its relevancy to your industry. This is what is mean by being crawled.
Next the search engine indexes or stores the information in a central location that works very similar to a large book. This book would have reference to every page that search engine has ever crawled and its importance to that particular industry.
The last part is the search engine software. This part of the search engine is responsible to sifting through all the relative information and storing or indexing it for future rankings according to its content.
On the other hand, Human powered type of search engines demand that people manually input their sites information into their site such as the open directory site.
The down side to this type of listing is that no matter how much more relevancy your site may have added its not automatically going to increase it’s standing, nor will it automatically be updated. You will have to resubmit all new information to the directory or human powered search engine for referencing once again.
Most of the search engines follow these rules. There are however some search engines that require you to have more information before it considers your content relevant. This information would be articles, links, content, reviews, books, tips, blogs, ie…relevancy.
James Martinez - Web Insite, Inc.