Monday, March 31, 2008

What Are Search Engine Spiders?

A spider, also known as a robot or a crawler, is actually just a program that follows, or "crawls", links throughout the Internet, grabbing content from sites and adding it to search engine indexes.

Spiders only can follow links from one page to another and from one site to another. That is the primary reason why links to your site (inbound links) are so important. Links to your website from other websites will give the search engine spiders more "food" to chew on. The more times they find links to your site, the more times they will stop by and visit. Google especially relies on its spiders to create their vast index of listings.

Spiders find Web pages by following links from other Web pages, but you can also submit your Web pages directly to a search engine or directory and request a visit by their spider.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

When I was young, I was terrified of spiders!

Now that I'm a full-time internet marketer, with my name at the top of Google, I absolutely LOVE spiders!

(Well, at least those invisible ones that crawl the Web from site to site. The furry ones still creep me out!)

Thanks for making a complex subject so much easier to understand - that's not an easy thing to do! (Based my own experience as a technical trainer.)

mike jackson said...

I really never knew the importance of search engine spiders,your articles explains it very well
Thanks

mcclen said...

Linda McClendon
This was great i have only known of the crawling spiders not the one on the internet.

Anonymous said...

Great explanation Gerald, thanks.

Bob Caine said...

Great information, I noticed you use veretekk - the master of seo.

Wyverex said...

Lets invite the spiders in

Wavecritter said...

Robot Spiders gives such a visual realization of what they do!

Anonymous said...

The spiders are your website's best friend if you've got the backlinks to your site. Will you be posting information on various ways to get the links to your website?

Rhonda Olin - Google Me

Anonymous said...

Cool Beans!

michael curry said...

The more food you give the spiders the better...Great Post
Michael Curry - google me
http://www.learnmarketingsuccess.com

GFranklin said...

Thank you all for your great comments

Ask Dwayne petersen said...

Great info thanks. never realy undestood till now how it works.

Kann Do Girl said...

Ok, I'm sufficiently spidered! What to do now? KDG

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