Beauty
queens or Olympic medallists are those who rank first among the competitors.
The rule is pretty much common in every arena of human activity. Rank
decides success and recognition in too many fields of human endeavor. Search
engines may not be human, but are powered by humans, and so stick to the human
rule of selective ranking, thus making
Search Engine
Ranking the most important criterion for acceptance and
recognition in the web world.
When
a person initiates a search on any topic, millions of web sites come running
marathons, bearing the necessary information. The searcher has no time to go
through all the sites for that little bit of information and has to restrict
his search to just a handful of them. He restricts his reading to only those,
which jumps into his vision first of all, and these are the sites, which have a
Search Engine Ranking. In other words, these have
been accepted as the best by the search engines because of the
SEO
Ranking it has got.
The
yardsticks that search engines employ for giving a
Search Engine
Ranking for a site cannot be as error-free or efficient as the
yardsticks humans use for selecting a medallist. However, the crawlers of the
search engines, which are the ones that give these sites an
SEO
Ranking, do a reasonably good job. A crawler relies on what is
referred to as an algorithm, for giving the sites the
Search Engine
Ranking. These algorithms vary from search engine to search
engine, but they do have some very common characteristics. First of these is
their ability to recognize a keyword, which is the topic that the net surfer
types into the search box. And it searches for this word in the millions of
sites that are clamoring for attention.
The
presence of the keyword in the floodtide of sites is the first selection
criteria that the crawler uses for giving the site the relevant
SEO
Ranking. First it will look for the keyword in the HTML title
tag. Then it will look for the keyword in the first few paragraphs as
well as calculate the overall frequency of the keyword in the contents.
It will give a higher
Search Engine Ranking to the
site in which it can find the relevant keyword in all the locations that it is
searching for it. Some site owners overdo the keyword use on their pages, and
this in fact lowers the ranking.
Though keyword frequency is a method relied on
by all search engines for
Search Engine Ranking, it
is not the only criteria for ranking, and there are thousands of other parameters
taken into consideration for ranking a site. You will find that results for a
query are different when done through different search engines. Some search
engines index web pages at lesser frequencies and so at any given time has a
smaller collection of pages than others. So the
Search Engine
Ranking each one gives to the pages will be different from what
another search engine gives.
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