| How do search engines decide where to place each | | | | Recycling Systems Corporation |
| page in there results? Searchers and webpage | | | | 1425 East Marina Street, San Jose, CA 77235 (513) |
| designers alike have asked this question. What is | | | | RSC is one of the leading companies in the industry, |
| engine optimization search strategy? For searchers | | | | offering municipalities an array of recycling. |
| knowing how a search engine categorizes a page can | | | | However, if you have a description like this then the |
| make for easy searching and for webpage masters | | | | search engine returns a much cleaner description: |
| having an understanding of how the search engine | | | | Recycling Systems Corporation |
| ranks pages can help them to gain a competitive | | | | RSC is a leading recycling and waste management |
| edge and increase their standing in the search engine. | | | | company providing creative wastehandling services |
| A search engine's objective is to present each result | | | | for communities across the USA. |
| in the order of its relevancy to the search query. | | | | Having a well written META tag can greatly increase |
| How to do so in an automated way, for every page | | | | your page rank. On that note, META tags alone will |
| on the Web and for every possible combination of | | | | not instantly put in the top spot of a search result. |
| keywords in all the languages people speak is a very | | | | A Webmaster also has to consider creating a |
| complicated task. | | | | web-crawler friendly webpage. Search engines rely on |
| Each search engine uses a very elaborate system to | | | | a little device called a web crawler (also referred to |
| determine where a page will be presented during an | | | | as spiders, bots, worms, web robots and automatic |
| internet search. The process of making web pages | | | | indexers) to locate and then catalog websites. Web |
| more attractive to a search engine is known as | | | | crawlers are computer programs that browse the |
| search engine optimization or SEO. | | | | World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner. |
| Studies show that the average internet user looks no | | | | Web crawlers locate a website and "crawl" all over it, |
| further then the second page of a search result. | | | | reading the algorithms and storing the data. Once |
| Because of this it's very important to websites to be | | | | they have collected all the information from the |
| listed on the first two pages and may undergo illegal | | | | website they bring it back to the search engine |
| (black hat) methods to obtain a top ranking. | | | | where it is indexed. Some search engines also use |
| Webmasters who stick to more respectable forms | | | | web crawlers to harvest e-mail addresses and for |
| of engine optimization search strategy use various | | | | maintenance tasks, in addition to collecting information |
| techniques to improve their search engine ranking. | | | | about a web site. Each search engine has their own |
| One of the first things a webmaster may do is to | | | | individual web crawlers and each search engine has |
| check their META tags. META tags are special HTML | | | | variations on how they gather information. |
| tags that provide information about a webpage. | | | | Webmaster should have some indication of how each |
| META tags are used by search engines to properly | | | | search engine ranks pages, in order to understand |
| index a webpage but they are not visible to the web | | | | why one document is ranked higher than another. |
| browser. META tags are a significant factor to | | | | Although search engines keep their algorithms a |
| getting ranked. The following examples show two | | | | secret, in part to make life more difficult for the |
| different META description tags taken from | | | | Black Hat SEOs web masters should try their best to |
| webdesign.org | | | | gain some understanding of how engine optimization |
| If there is no description, the search engine will | | | | search strategy should work. |
| display something like this: | | | | |