How Googlebot works

We all have used or heard of Google (ever since its release). The most used search engine in the entire world. Google has made 1/3 of their profits off advertisement alone. Those search results that end up being at the top of our page? They don't just end up their through good, hard earned meta data, algorithms, now do they?. There are plenty of websites that portray certain techniques that promise to see your resource(s) climax. This may be true to a certain extent. Your website, blog, or virtual space is limited to how far it can climb the ladder of success. Does web crawling and search engine optimization (SEO) really help one see results? Or is it AdSense and AdWord that really make a difference in how your resources are stacked. In this post we take a look at these questions that are on all of our minds. How does Google function behind the surface of its search engine?

The easiest methodology to implement/follow while understanding a problem is to divide and conquer (like the British) break the problem into smaller segments in order to understand and solve the constraint as a whole. This is exactly what we will do. We will have a look at all the defining technologies that are closely related to SEO.

Web crawling, web spider, ant or any other name/term that refers to an Internet automated mechanism that crawls each and every resource on the world wide web, indexing each and every site as it crawls. Google's web crawler Googlebot, looks at each website held on the world wide web, flowing through each link for each website delivered on the web. Googlebot collects defining information on millions of resources such as meta tags, link data, content for each website resource and delivers such data back to Google's own distributed data farms for processing. Googlebot starts off with pas tense web addresses publicly accessible and sitemaps uploaded by site owners for search engines to manipulate more concisely. A sitemap is a file that lists each and every link of your website, generally making it easier for search engines to crawl. Sitemaps can come in many forms from XML documents to web documents (a simple webpage listing each containing webpage link). Both containing document nodes. Sitemaps may also be used for planing of websites by web designers. Sitemaps have many benefits as we have found out. Sitemaps in XML format, help search bots understand the structure of ones web resources, where as web documented site maps help users as well as spider crawlers better navigate your site.

After Google sends its bots into the world wide web and has successfully returned with data, Google applies a complicated algorithm that indexes each and every web resource on the web (billions of website pages daily). You may not come to terms with how Google operates but one thing for sure is that Google indexing has been used by the majority of us. Have you used Google Search? if so then you have been a custom to Google's very own indexing mechanism which looks up criteria s that have been submitted for querying. Ever wonder when you type in a letter or any character into Google's search bar and receive an estimated guess on what you may be looking for.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35291?hl=en

http://www.google.co.uk/insidesearch/howsearchworks/crawling-indexing.html

http://www.htmlbasictutor.ca/images/search-engine-indexing.png

https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/1704410?hl=en&topic=1713894&ctx=topic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler