Search engines typically offer far more information about their indexes than most people are aware of. Due to some recent time constraints from both work and home - I'm going to let this post, for the most part - speak for itself.

Recently myself and some guys I work with were discussing the importance of certain web directories that were being purchased for client campaigns. My friend and colleague Eric Bridges played a big part in bringing about this blog post - so thank you Eric.

Although search engine indexing and crawl patterns don't always correlate to search engine rankings, webpages that rank well in competitive search engine query spaces always have solid indexing and crawl patterns. Optimizing link structures and architecture for both search engine indexing/crawl as well as users can be a challenging task.

The backbone of Google’s link-based algorithm follows a simplistic and highly debated model known as PageRank. Larry Page first constructed the process when he realized that both the number and nature of inbound links across the web into a single page was a meaningful way to make assumptions about the pages semantics and relevancy for a given topic or keyword.