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eBoot Camp: Proven Internet Marketing Techniques to Grow Your Business
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eBoot Camp: Proven Internet Marketing Techniques to Grow Your Business

by Corey Perlman
January 2009
Beginner
206 pages
2h 42m
English
Wiley
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Chapter 1. Anatomy of a Search Engine

The Difference Between Organic and Paid Searches and Where You Should Focus Your Time and Resources.

Anatomy of a Search Engine

In this chapter, you will learn:

How a search engine operates.

The definition of sponsored ads and organic searches and the differences between them.

Which search engines you should focus on.

Before we delve into how to win the search engine game, let's first go over the basics of what search engines are, how they work, and who the major players are.

Search engines are tools that inventory content on the Web based on criteria that the searcher is looking for. That content can be in the form of a web page, video, picture, or other online resource. When search engines evaluate a web page, they may take into account many aspects, including the domain name (also known as the web site address), the web site's content and its meta tags. Meta tags are content you create specifically for search engines to help them decipher what your web site is about and where to place your site in their search results. Meta tags are located in the source code (programming language) of your web site. The components that make up your meta tags will be discussed in detail later in this book.

To view any web site's meta tags, you just need to look in the source code of that web site. To do this in Internet Explorer, simply click on "View" from the top navigation bar and then click ...

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