Posts Tagged "Webmasters"

Internet is a world were searchers and webmasters come together to define what words mean. Webmasters are driven by their profit motives and want searchers to come to their site so they are constantly chasing what it is that searchers are looking for. Searchers meanwhile are diligently trying to figure out what they want. Both webmasters and searchers are motivated entirely by their self-interest thus come to a collective agreement on search terms.

Search-engine provides a medium to connect these crowds together. Unlike other search engines Google algorithm uses some things that we already may know. First step is to take a stack of pages, every page in the index and every single word found any where on the page is used to create a very big matrix relating words to pages as they appear in. This data structure called an inverted index and is a common element in all search engine algorithm.

Google derives meaning from links between pages called Anchor Text. These links tell Google how pages are related to one another and what words associate with each of these connections. To capture these relationships Google builds a matrix much like the page in word matrix but the second matrix indexes the words that appear in links rather than the words on page. We now have two major matrixes, one that identifies words on the page and one for link words pointing to each page.

It is the agreement between the text of the page and the references to it that measures ‘Referential Truth’ of a website. Words follow deeds from the real world and thus help in search engine rankings.

Google wants to rank your page and will rank it for whatever you want; you just not have to tell Google but you need to confirm to the algorithm and use algorithm rules. Once you understand these rules it really is not that difficult to rapidly create top rankings.

Next time around I’ll try and talk about what user’s are looking for and what does Google promise.