Indexing is the process of adding web pages into Google
search. Google tries to understand what the page is about and analyzes the
content of the page, catalogs, images and video files implanted in a page. The
Google Search index contains hundreds of billions of webpages and is well over
100,000,000 gigabytes in size.
Search engines crawl
the internet to discover keyword attached to websites and pages. These results
are stored and organized into a database called an “index” for quick retrieval.
Once content has been indexed, it can be served up on search engine results
pages (SERPs) for relevant search queries. Today, Google Search can help you
search text from millions of books from major libraries. In short, if you want
your content to be found, it needs to be indexed for the opportunity to be
seen.
There are a few
methods for inviting a search engine to crawl a page in order to be indexed
more quickly.
XML Site Maps
Robot Meta Tags
Fetch as Google
Submit URL
Hosting Content
The Sitemaps protocol allows a webmaster to
inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling.
A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site.
Meta tags are essentially little content descriptors
that help tell search engines what a web page is about. Meta elements are tags
used in HTML and XHTML documents to provide structured metadata about a Web
page.
Crawling is the first part of having a search engine
recognize your page and show it in search results. Crawling is the process by
which Googlebot visits new and updated pages to be added to the Google index. New
sites, changes to existing sites, and dead links are noted and used to update
the Google index. Crawlers use algorithms to establish the frequency with which
they scan a specific page and how many pages of the website it must scan.
Googlebot is the web
crawler software used by Google, which collects documents from the web to build
a searchable index for the Google Search engine.
Ranking - Once a keyword is entered into a search box,
search engines will check for pages within their index that are a closest
match; a score will be assigned to these pages based on an algorithm consisting
of hundreds of different ranking signals.
These pages (or
images & videos) will then be displayed to the user in order of score.
So in order for your
site to rank well in search results pages, it’s important to make sure search
engines can crawl and index your site correctly – otherwise they will be unable
to appropriately rank your website’s content in search results.
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