http://www.websitehits.com/taxonomy/term/9/0 The listing of web pages returned by a search engine in response to a keyword query. en http://www.websitehits.com/search-engine-results-page <p>A <a class="glossary-term" href="/seo-terms-and-definitions/search-engine"><acronym title="search engine: A system designed to help find information stored on the Web.">search engine</acronym></a> results page, or <a class="glossary-term" href="/seo-terms-and-definitions/serp"><acronym title="SERP: The listing of web pages returned by a search engine in response to a keyword query.">SERP</acronym></a>, is the listing of web pages returned by a search engine in response to a <a class="glossary-term" href="/seo-terms-and-definitions/keyword"><acronym title="keyword: One of the words used to find matching web pages.">keyword</acronym></a> query. The results normally include a list of web pages with titles, a link to the page, and a short description showing where the <a class="glossary-term" href="/seo-terms-and-definitions/keyword"><acronym title="keyword: One of the words used to find matching web pages.">keywords</acronym></a> have matched content within the page. <a class="glossary-term" href="/seo-terms-and-definitions/serp"><acronym title="SERP: The listing of web pages returned by a search engine in response to a keyword query.">SERPs</acronym></a> may also contain advertisements, a way for <a class="glossary-term" href="/seo-terms-and-definitions/search-engine"><acronym title="search engine: A system designed to help find information stored on the Web.">search engines</acronym></a> to earn income.</p> <p>For frequently requested search terms, search engines do not build the SERP afresh each time. Instead, the search engines build the SERP once and save it for subsequent queries. Periodically the search engine crawls the web and rebuilds the SERP to account for new pages, and to re-rank the pages according to the search engine's own algorithm.</p> SERP Thu, 9 Nov 2006 15:24:58 -0500 joseph 18 at http://www.websitehits.com