Difference between Indexing and Crawling..??

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Hey all i am a newbie in SEO and i just wanted to solve a doubt that always creeps up in my mind!! What is the difference between Indexing and Crawling..??
#crawling #difference #indexing
  • Profile picture of the author Ryan3
    Just because a site is crawled doesn't mean its indexed.
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  • Profile picture of the author voldamort
    google have crawlers means the bots which check your site and index it on google . if your website is good you will also get good rankings ....
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  • Profile picture of the author johnniewalk
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    Indexing means link has been considered as a particular backlink
    Crawling means crawling a particular website..
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  • Profile picture of the author IMKing
    Search engine bots will crawl your site/page regularly and index them if they meet their requirement. Same thing applies to your backlinks also.
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  • Profile picture of the author billyborden
    Google is a software known as a search engine bot also known as a Google Crawler. Google Crawler has the jobs to check your site and index it on google . if your website meet their requirement they will also index them.
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  • Profile picture of the author thuybk
    Short answer: Crawling is the process of an engine requesting. Indexing is the result of successful crawling.
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  • Profile picture of the author hostbrink
    First step of letting Google know about your site and content is inviting Crawler to read material and analyze content ... after crawler fetch, it is sent to google server for analyzing and depending on the site worth, pr and other factors it may get included in the search results which we usually call as indexing in less than a minute or even can take week ......
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  • Profile picture of the author kavyaanjali
    Crawling is vising a website by search engines and get information that includes Content, Description & keywords and indexing is making database of the information that has been collected by crawler.

    Indexing is the result of successful crawling. I consider a URL to be indexed (by Google) when an info: or cache: query produces a result, signifying the URL's presence in the Google index.
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  • Profile picture of the author RandySwanston
    Crawling - Means search engine bots have just visited your website.
    Indexing - Search engine bots visited your site and also add the page to its database index.
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  • Profile picture of the author aceriker
    Hi,

    Crawling is the process, where google bot will view the new and updated pages to be added in index
    where us indexing is process of given position to each page in search engine
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  • Profile picture of the author npoint
    Good quality unique content index itself, you don`t need to use indexer services for example, Web 2.0 articles from sites like wordpress.com or blog.com etc. they index pretty fast hands off
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  • Profile picture of the author manavforum
    Crawling means following your links and crawling your Website & Indexing is the process of adding Webpages into Google search.
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  • Profile picture of the author MarksWineClub
    Crawl-Google Bot, or similar has seen the content.

    Index-the content is good enough, along with a number of factors on your site itself, to be ranked
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