Many people who wonder out onto the Internet in search of high traffic or ad revenues have one basic question: how to get their pages to rank higher on popular search engines.
Of course this is usually followed by how to get to the top of the Google and Yahoo indexes fast as well.  The best way to understand how to rule the popular search engines is to first understand how Google and Yahoo work as well as most search engines on the web.
This is because once you understand what their crawlers are looking for you can tailor your website to make sure that you provide it!
First, you need to understand that the key to the search engines knowledge are small things often called a search engine spider or crawler.  This is a type of bug (this one is good!) that crawls the Internet looking for the best new sites and updates on some older sites as well.
A crawler from Google or yahoo is most likely to stop by your website if they follow a link from another website.  This is why websites that have a lot of back links tend to rank higher on search engines.  So this is lesson one, link to as many websites as possible if you want to see a high index among Internet search engines!
Second, you need to understand that a crawler will continue to view your page if the content is updated frequently updated or if the site receives a lot of traffic.  This is because the spiders now consider the website an authoritative source of information and want to continue to track its progress.
The more a crawler returns to your website the more it will view your content and determine that you should receive a higher rank in the Google index.  Thus, lesson number two, always keep your site updated so that a crawler has a reason to come back!
Now that you know this, if you want to receive a high search index fast on search engines your first focus should be on getting the crawlers to visit your website.  You can do this by visiting websites and leaving links on website that already have high ranks with Google and Yahoo and are updated frequently.
Since you know the crawlers will return to these sites, they are the best way to get your site noticed.  A few great places you may want to link to through article or directory submissions are EzineArticles.com, Social Networking sites, and RSS directories.

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Search engines have a process that they use to rank websites in order of importance, so if you want a high index rank on Yahoo or Google it will be useful to discover how their crawler system works.  Updating and link building are the most attractive traits to a crawler, and are the best way to get fast recognition for your work.