How Web Crawlers Work
How Web Crawlers Work
Are you struggling to understand how web crawlers work? Do you know what a web crawler is? If not, don't worry - you're not alone!
A lot of business owners don't know the ins and outs of web crawlers and what they can do for their websites.
In this blog post, we'll break down everything you need to know about web crawlers: what they are, how they work, and most importantly - how they can help your website! Stay tuned for more information on this essential part of online marketing.
In this article, we will explain how web crawlers work and how they play a role in the entire search engine environment.
It is the search engines that finally bring your website to the notice of prospective customers.
Hence it is important to know how these search engines actually work and how they present information to the customer initiating a search.
Search engines use robots called crawlers or spiders to build their index of websites.
Search Engines use spiders to index websites.
When you submit your website pages to a search engine by completing their required submission page, the search engine spider will index your entire site.
A ‘spider’ is an automated program that is run by the search engine system.
A spider visits a website, reads the content on the actual site, the site's Meta tags, and also follows the links that the site connects.
The spider then returns all that information back to a central depository, where the data is indexed.
It will visit each link you have on your website and index those sites as well.
Some spiders will only crawl a certain number of pages on your site.
The spider will periodically return to the sites to check for any information that has changed.
The frequency with which this happens is determined by the moderators of the search engine.
A spider is almost like a book where it contains the table of contents, the actual content, and the links and references for all the websites it finds during its search, and it may index up to a million pages a day.
When you ask a search engine to locate information, it is actually searching through the index which it has created and not actually searching the Web.
Different search engines produce different rankings because not every search engine uses the same algorithm to search through the indices.
One of the things that a search engine algorithm scans for is the frequency and location of keywords on a web page, but it can also detect artificial keyword stuffing or spamdexing.
Then the algorithms analyze the way that pages link to other pages on the Web.
By checking how pages link to each other, an engine can both determine what a page is about if the keywords of the linked pages are similar to the keywords on the original page.
