Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Google

How Google finds sites and pages

All major search engines use spider programs to scour the web, collect the documents, give each a unique reference, scan their text and hand them off to an indexing program. Where the scan picks up hyperlinks to other documents, those documents are then fetched in their turn. Google's spider is called Googlebot and you can see it hitting your site if you look at your web logs.

How Google first finds your site

There are essentially four ways in which Googlebot finds your new site. The first and most obvious way is for you to submit your URL to Google for crawling, via the Add URL. The 2nd way is when Google finds a link to your site from another site that it has already indexed and subsequently send its spider to follow the link. The 3rd way is when you sign up for Google Webmaster Tools, verify your site and submit a sitemap. The 4th way is when you redirect an already indexed web page to the new page.

Kelvin Too
Fujitel Sales & Services
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