Search Engine Principals

**angie828** · 10-20-2011 01:57 PM

To fully understand SEO you will need to fully understand the components of search engine principals All of the following main components are contained in them: spider, indexter, database, results engine, webserver, and crawler.

Spider
This is a browserlike program that downloads webpages The main difference is that a spider does not have any visual components, where a browser will display the information such as graphics and text on each page. The spider works directly with the HTML code of the page

Indexter
The indexter is a web page that analyzes programs downloaded from the crawler and the spider. It will analyze text, headers, special HTML tags, or stylistic or structural features.

Database
The database is a storage for downloaded and processed pages. It can also be called the index of the search engine.

Results Engine
This is what ranks the pages, which is done according to the ranking algorithms of the of the search engine. Any SEO specialist should be most interested in this when trying to improve his or her ranking.

WebServer
The webserver is how HTML pages are displayed for search results. It is responsible for the interaction between search engine components and the user.

The Crawler
This is a program that will automatically find you links on your page. The crawler will follow links for you and try to find documents that may not be known to search engines.

As you can see, all of these components make it easier to understand SEO. Once you know what each component is responsible for doing, you can see how they all come together to make SEO a much more enjoyable experience for you.