📘 Lesson 1: How Search Engines Work Concept: Search engines like Google use automated bots (called crawlers) to discover pages across the web. These pages are indexed (stored) in a massive database. When a user searches, Google retrieves the most relevant pages and ranks them based on relevance , authority , and user experience . Key Processes: Crawling: Bots follow links to discover content. Indexing: The discovered content is stored in Google’s database. Ranking: Algorithms evaluate and order results by relevance. Example: If you publish a blog post about “Opptym AI SEO,” Google’s crawler finds it through internal links or a sitemap, indexes it, and may rank it for searches like “Opptym AI SEO” if optimized well. Exercise: Go to Google Search Console → URL Inspection → enter one of your page URLs → check whether it’s indexed and fix issues if not. https://opptym.com/ ::Keyword Research ::Google ::Opptym ::Opptym !!Neutral ^Medium