Chapter 1

The top search engines of today are: Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and Ask. These sights are the most used to search information online. These search engines rank webpages so they can appear in their search directory. Search engines rank pages in two way, Crawler Based Search Engines and Human Based Powered Directories.

Crawler based search engines use a crawler to search a webpage for information that people would search. The crawler can detect when you change things in your website, and will list them accordingly. Each crawler based search engine is made up of 3 things.


  1. Crawler or Spider
  2. Index
  3. Search Engine Software


As I said earlier, these crawlers or spiders search the webpage for information and upload them to an index to be accepted by the Search engine software. There are so many factors that go into ranking a webpage that I will not be able to explain them all, rather I will list them below.

ON PAGE FACTORS

  1. Location of Keywords
  2. Frequency


OFF PAGE FACTORS

  1. Link Analysis
  2. Link Popularity
  3. Date of Article Published
  4. Length
  5. Proximity of Query Terms
  6. Proper Nouns


Search Engine Spam is an unethical tactic of optimizing the a website to rank it high in a search. These tactics are used to trick a search engines into giving higher ranking to websites that don't necessarily belong there. Many search engines penalize websites that use spam. There many different ways that someone can use spam to get higher rankings.


  1. Search Engine Spam Examples
  2. Keywords unrelated to site
  3. Redirects
  4. Keyword Stuffing
  5. Mirror/Duplicate content
  6. Tiny Text
  7. Doorway Pages
  8. Link Farms
  9. Cloaking
  10. Keyword Stacking
  11. Gibberish
  12. Hidden Text
  13. Domain Spam
  14. Hidden Links
  15. Mini/ Micro-Sites
  16. Page Swapping (Bait & Switch)
  17. Typo Spam  and Cyber Squatting

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