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Search engines play an important role in making Internet browsing systematic. Most Internet users rely on search engines to find and retrieve information about a product, a person or anything that they may benefit from. And most importantly, Internet users consider the top list of search engines' result page as the most credible sources for the information they are seeking. That is why it makes sense to create a web design that adheres to search engines' protocols.

The simplest way to understand how search engines work is to compare them to the system that libraries commonly apply, the Dewey Decimal System. A library catalog is present in all libraries. Researchers and book borrowers refer to a library catalog for the title, author and date of publication of the item they are looking for. Unless the book that a researcher is looking for is already in the library's database, researchers will not find the book even though it is physically present in the library.

The same goes for search engines: Unless a businessman submits his website to a search engine company, not much people will know about its existence in the World Wide Web. This is because search engine spiders can "read and understand" only the information (found in a particular web page) that has been indexed.

Creating a web design that follows the search engines' ranking standards, however, is not enough to drive traffic to a website. A website needs optimisation so that it will land a consistent spot in the first page of search engines result list.

So aside from the physical design of a website, it also need to have a web page intended for informative articles. Informative, keyword-rich and regularly updated web content assures companies a good result in terms of their website ranking.

Plainly put, designing a website for search engines means mastering both the site architecture and its content. Remember though that mastering web optimisation is not a one-time process. It requires maintenance, monitoring and even continuous testing to ensure that the website is accessible and retrievable.