The Importance Of Search Engines

It is the search engines that finally bring your website to the notice of
the prospective customers. When a topic is typed for search, nearly
instantly, the search engine will sift through the millions of pages it has
indexed about and present you with ones that match your topic. The searched
matches are also ranked, so that the most relevant ones come first.

Remember that a prospective customer will probably only look at the first
2-3 listings in the search results. So it does matter where your website
appears in the search engine ranking.

Further, they all use one of the top 6-7 search engines and these search
engines attract more visitors to websites than anything else. So finally it
all depends on which search engines the customers use and how they rank your
site.

It is the Keywords that play an important role than any expensive online or
offline advertising of your website.

It is found by surveys that a when customers want to find a website for
information or to buy a product or service, they find their site in one of
the following ways:

The first option is they find their site through a search engine.

Secondly they find their site by clicking on a link from another website or
page that relates to the topic in which they are interested.

Occasionally, they find a site by hearing about it from a friend or reading
in an article.

Thus it's obvious the the most popular way to find a site, by search engine,
represents more than 90% of online users. In other words, only 10% of the
people looking for a website will use methods other than search engines.

All search engines employ a ranking algorithm and one of the main rules in a
ranking algorithm is to check the location and frequency of keywords on a
web page. Don't forget that algorithms also give weightage to link
population (number of web pages linking to your site).

When performed by a qualified, experienced search engine optimization
consultant, your site for high search engine rankings really does work,
unless you have a lot of money and can afford to pay the expert. With better
knowledge of search engines and how they work, you can also do it on your
own.

About The Author: Jon Rognerud is a recognized authority on the subject of
SEO, and has spent over 10 years developing websites and marketing solutions
at companies like Overture and Yahoo.
His website, http://www.microsaw.com, provides a wealth of informative
articles, resources, tips and free downloads.