Video: What happens when you do a Google web search?

Ever think about how Google makes sense of all the noise out there on the web. How do they decide what websites to show you?

Matt Cutts is an engineer at Google and probably the most qualified SEO expert on the internet (in our opinion). Here’s what he covers:

This is how Google checks out what’s out there on the web. Make it easy on them!

Spiders evaluate which website are linking to other sites, and rates their relative importance. The more quality sites that link to you, the more important you are. Makes sense.

Each page is assigned a page rank based on its relative importance. Only the absolute best websites in the world are given highest page rank.

In about 1/2 a second, Google takes all this into account and assigns each web page a score. This is how it decides which pages are shown when you do a web search…and in which order.

Matt wraps it up with a quick discussion on Google’s handling of paid positioning, advertisements and their emphasis on impartiality.

I highly encourage you to check out more of Matt’s stuff. He’s really good at what he does, and although he’s a high level SEO guys at Google, he always speaks in non technical layman’s terms.

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