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What is difference between a Directory and a Search Engine ?

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What is difference between a Directory and a Search Engine ?

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• A Search Engine is a machine – or a robot whereas a Web Directory is a directory on the World Wide Web and helps in linking to other web sites and categorizing those links based on keywords. • Mostly, humans compile directories. On the other hand, a human may program algorithms for a search engine, but humans have nothing to do with your site when the spider is visiting your site or when the engine is ranking your pages • A search engine has a very large database whereas a directory will only store a link to the home page of each site and a description. • Search engines can take the description either from some of the sentences on the web page or from the description meta tag. On the other hand a directory will take the description from your submission information. What is Search Engine Positioning (SEP) ? Search Engine positioning is the process to get high ranking in search engine result pages by using specific keywords or keyword phrases. It is possible that your website may appea

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