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Phase 3 · Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

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How Search Engines Work

Part of the Digital Marketing Roadmap.

Summary

Search engines crawl the web, index pages, and rank them for a given query using hundreds of signals — understanding crawling, indexing and ranking as distinct steps clears up most SEO confusion.

How to Learn This

  • 1Learn the 3-step process: crawling, indexing, ranking, and what could go wrong at each.
  • 2Check whether a website of yours (or a sample one) is indexed using a 'site:' search.
  • 3Read a beginner-friendly explainer on how Google's ranking algorithm broadly works.

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