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Search Engine Optimization was started by the webmasters and the web publishers during the mid 1990s. At that time the primary function of the webmasters was to submit a page or URL to the various search engines which would send a spider to “crawl” that page, extract links to other pages from it, and return information found on the page to be indexed. In this process the search engine... Read moreSearch Engine Optimization was started by the webmasters and the web publishers during the mid 1990s. At that time the primary function of the webmasters was to submit a page or URL to the various search engines which would send a spider to “crawl” that page, extract links to other pages from it, and return information found on the page to be indexed. In this process the search engine spider downloaded the pages and stored them on the search engines own server, where the indexer worked out on the pages. In this process what the indexer does is to extract various information about the page, such as the number of words in it, or if there is any weight of any specific words, as well as to find out any or all links on the page etc. all these information are then placed into a scheduler for crawling at a later date. This process is carried on all the search engines. Now when the site owners recognized the value of having their site highly ranked and easily visible in search engine results, created the opportunity for the SEO practitioners. The phrase Search Engine Optimization probably came into practice in 1997. View page