85% of traffic to your website will come from search engines or directories - so make sure web users find you!

The architecture of search engines

To get the most traffic to your website you must first know and understand how a search engine works

All search engines contain the following main components:

Spider	A browser-like programme that downloads web pages
Crawler	A program that automatically follows all of the links on each web page
Indexer	A program that analyzes web pages downloaded by the spider and the crawler
Database	Storage for downloaded and processed pages
Results engine	Extracts search results from the database
Web server	A server that is responsible for interaction between the user and other search engine components