Search Engine Tips

Search Engine Tips

Need to improve your search engine standings?

Here are a few ideas to get you started.

First of all, a search engine is only a very, very fast computers with lots and lots of drive space holding massive databases filled with information about your web site. The intelligence behind the search engine is a program written specifically to read (spider) all or part of your web site (or information that you have submitted) and extract what it thinks is relevant information in order to determine what your web page is about. The search engine then inserts this extracted information into the database index which is queried when a user submits a search.

What does all this really mean?

The search engine may not have accurately summarized your web site's principle subject matter.
The search engine may have emphasized the wrong ideas.
The search engine may not have found anything of significant value to index.
All search engines are different, therefore you can not satisfy all search engines equally.
The search engine programs may inadvertently or intentionally delete your web site from the database.
It's up to you to program your web site using techniques that are easily indexed by the search engine.