Search Engines Explained…What Are Algorithms & Pageranks?
Posted on 30. Nov, 2009 by admin in Online Training
What are Algorithms?
Now that we know how your web page shows up in the search engines it’s important to understand what an algorithm is. Well Wikipedia says…
An algorithm is a finite sequence of instructions, an explicit, step-by-step procedure for solving a problem, often used for calculation and data processing. It is formally a type of effective method in which a list of well-defined instructions for completing a task…
So basically what this is saying is, is that the search engines critique your sites based on certain criteria to see where it will rank in their results. Some of these criteria’s include:
1. Location & Frequency of keywords on your web page
2. Amount of links pointing to your site
3. How your website is structure
4. How relevant & unique your content is
What is Pagerank?
I felt it necessary to include this inside this ebook because it plays an important role when you begin building links. I think Wikipedia is much better at explaining things, so here is the definition from Wikipedia:
Pagerank is a link analysis algorithm used by the Google Internet search engine that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of “measuring” its relative importance within the set.
A website can have a pagerank of 1 – 9, obviously the higher the pagerank the better! When your finding site to link to yours if is important to find those links that have high pagerank (PR).
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