SEO works to make a website search engine friendly as much as possible. It is not so difficult. There are two main aspects of search engines. The first one is how the crawler works and the other is Search engine figure out which pages relates to which keywords and phrases.

Search engines collect data about a particular website by sending the crawler to visit the site and collect the content and copy it to the search engines database. These crawlers are designed to follow links from one page to the next and so on, and they are generally known as bots. As the bots copies the content from one page, it record its link and send it to the other bots to make copies of that content and pages linked to it. This process continues for infinity. This process continues 24/7. The major search engines send out crawlers and collect data and have established databases that have size in the tens and more of millions.

How the crawlers read and collect the information is the technical thing of basic SEO. Crawlers read the content of a link as we generally read newspaper. And if it encounters any link then it will record it and send it to other bots to visit it and record the data from there.

A crawler follows every link and records every type of content and data that is in their path. You can assume that if there is a link to any site the crawler will definitely find it. You do not have to submit your site manually or electronically to any search engine. The crawler are sufficiently able to do it on there own.

As the crawler is following your site, helping it to get around your site is your first priority. The most important tip for basic SEO is to provide clear paths to the crawler to follow every link on your site. You can do this by providing simple text links to follow directed to all your important pages on the site in the navigation menu or simply at the bottom of each page. And one of this links should lead to sitemap, as the sitemap leads to every page linked to the site. Letting the crawler have access to the areas of the site you want is like a battle.

Search engines are made in such a way that they have to provide there users the lists of pages that are related to the search term that the user have entered in the search box. The search engine have to determine which pages relates to the search terms and which pages to be displayed in the search result to the user.

Conclusion is that to do SEO for your site is a challenging task. But remember that the foundation of successful SEO is making and maintaining your site simply. SEO basics may be time consuming in its early stages but the results are worth its efforts.

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