Know More On Search Engine Spiders

There are many search engines today and each one has its own spider as well as an indexer. It is very important for all SEO professionals to know about the working of such search engines and its spiders also.

Google is the most popular search engine which is used by millions across the globe. Google has its own ranking system and also its own indexer. Initially web masters found it very tough to manipulate the ranking system of Google, but slowly it was figured how Google could be used to get better search engine rankings. Google is known not to use context sensitive ranking system.

MSN is another very popular search engine. It is said that Yahoo, Google and MSN form a holy trinity of search engines and all three of them combine to get a huge traffic. MSN is known to carry out its indexing process the fastest, though none will be able to tell you how spiders index the search engines. Webmasters usually check on a weekly or a monthly basis with small changes being made in websites. This is basically a trial and error method that is adopted by search engines and helps to determine which way the site shall be indexed the best.

AltaVista is another search engine which has its spider known as Scooter. It sends Scooter to an entire site but it is usually a very long process. It is known that this spider can take as long as 3 months to fully index any website whereas other spiders normally take a maximum of 8 weeks to index a page. Scooter is known to index between 2-10 pages from any site in a week. This means that the longer your website is able to last, the better it will be for the purpose of indexing.

If you wish your site to be indexed fast you have to ensure that search engines have an opportunity to get closer to your Meta tags or the start of the content of your website. If you have the same information in your Meta tag as well as the content of your website, it will be tougher for you to get a ranking.