A vitally important role is carried out by Meta tags description and keyword prominence because of the fact that they are indexed in a particular way or fashion . The search engines at the top will not index keywords that are considered to be spam . They will also not index words that have been labeled stop words . Stop words include words like the, or, or of. The reason this is done is to save space and quicken the search process. Search engines themselves do not index images, but search engines will and do index image descriptions, Alt text and the text that is left as comments.
The search engine software or program is the final part. When a request for a search on a keyword or phrase , the search engine software searches the index for data that is relevant to the search term requested. A report is then rendered by the software back to the person who made the request with the most applicable web pages listed in the first position and then down the list.
Listings of websites are collected by these directories into a particular industry, subject categories, quite often they will carry a short description of the information requested on the website . To be included in a directory requires that a person manually submits the information to the directory producers. Very often you will find visitors and researchers who are on the internet that will use these directories to locate relevant sites and information sources.
Another reason of importance is that the crawler engines quite often find websites to crawl through their listings and links in directories. Because of this it is a very good idea to submit your website or websites to search engine directories.
The biggest search engines like Google get over two hundred million searches per day. Think about that, and it’s probably well over two hundred million searches per day, at the time you are reading this article . Yahoo is the 2nd largest with about a third of what Google receives in searches, a very impressive number .
Don’t take for granted the role of meta tags and the power of search engines .