Friday 9 October 2015

Search Engine Result Page (SERP)

Search Engines

Search Engine is a program or software system that is designed to find documents or information for specific keyword on World Wide Web (www). Examples- Google, Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Munax, Baidu etc.

Search Engines first crawl and then index content (including link, keywords, data) from different web pages of a website. A webpage can appear on Search Engine Result Page (SERP) only after the page has been indexed by search engine. And when someone search something on search engines, it shows relevant results on SERP.

Search engines can re-crawl and re-index a webpage several times if required, the more frequent it re-crawls and re-indexes a page the better rank the page should get.


Search Engine Result Page

SERP consist of list of results in response to a specific query. In Google four types of list appear on its result page-
  • Google Adwords
  • Organic Ranking List
  • Local Ranking List
  • Related keywords or Local Semantic Indexing (LSI)
Organic ranking list and local ranking list done with SEO where as Google adwords comes under Search Engine Marketing (SEM)

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