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onlineshop
08-19-2012, 05:16 AM
If anyone know what is indexing and crawling please share your knowledge...

samdorjey
08-20-2012, 01:01 AM
Crawling is the process When a search engine bot visits your site
Indexing is the process When a search engine bot visits your site first time and takes a copy of your site to its database.

morganlong
08-20-2012, 01:25 AM
Indexing is the process used to firstly find your site, and then secondly digest the content of your site. This is the way that search engines gather information about your site in order to score of each page using their own ranking algorithm.

Crawling is the process where search engines spiders / bots move from web page to web page by following the links on the WebPages. The pages found are then ranked using an algorithm of search engines and indexed into the search engine database.

aashthaa912
08-20-2012, 03:02 AM
Canonical links advising search engines about not indexing the site that have same content of the website we are promoting. In this way content duplication issue is omitted carefully.

jhonmike
08-20-2012, 07:11 AM
Indexing refers to a carbon copy that saved by the search engine to its database. But crawling means read the content bye the Search engine of web page.

seoserviceszone
08-21-2012, 06:29 AM
Crawling means reading the content and description etc. of the site. While Indexing means adding the web page into the search engines database.

lile6666
08-21-2012, 06:48 AM
Hey Dear,

Crawling : It is the process when bot reads your web page
Indexing : It is the process of adding your webpage in to the
search engines database

friv4mini
08-21-2012, 08:53 AM
The article is written in a very good manner. It helps me in my college project.

abhishekabhi
08-21-2012, 09:22 AM
HI

Index is store a data in database but crawling is update data in database.

Paul Jameson
08-22-2012, 06:31 AM
Crawling is the process when search engine spider visit your website and collect data from your website and in indexing collected data verify by search engine bot as per their algorithm and saved those data in database.

webdigger
08-22-2012, 07:02 AM
Hey Dear,

Crawling : It is the process when bot reads your web page
Indexing : It is the process of adding your webpage in to the
search engines database

I also agree this point Crawling means Search Engine Spider reads your webpage on the other hand Indexing means adding your overall webpage data in the Search Engine database.

Harry Mark
08-23-2012, 07:36 AM
The Crawler scans the entire page after that Indexer indexes it and lists it on the search engine

JamessLee
08-23-2012, 08:34 AM
An Indexing refers to collects, parses, and stores data of websites to facilitate fast and accurate information retrieval.

Crawling is when crawler or Google bots visit the website.

JerrickYeoh
08-24-2012, 03:04 AM
rawling means sucking content without processing the results. Crawlers are rather dumb processes that fetch content supplied by Web servers answering (HTTP) requests of requested URIs, delivering those contents to other processes, e.g. crawling caches or directly to indexers. Crawlers get their URIs from a crawling engine that’s feeded from different sources, including links extracted from previously crawled Web documents, URI submissions, foreign Web indexes, and whatnot.

Indexing means making sense out of the retrieved contents, storing the processing results in a (more or less complex) document index. Link analysis is a way to measure URI importance, popularity, trustworthiness and so on. Link analysis is often just a helper within the indexing process, sometimes the end in itself, but traditionally a task of the indexer, not the crawler (high sophisticated crawling engines do use link data to steer their crawlers, but that has nothing to do with link analysis in document indexes).

alfraidjones
08-24-2012, 05:35 AM
When search engine bot comes to your web-page and read the content of your web-page, the process is called Crawling.
While Indexing refers when search engine bot comes to your web-page and take a copy of that page and save it on their server.

stevepearls
08-24-2012, 06:33 AM
Hi,

Crawling is where search engines spiders or bots move from web page. Those pages found are then ranked using an algorithm and indexed into the search engines database.

Indexing is where search engine has crawled those pages of website store them in the database.

Charly07
08-29-2012, 07:16 AM
Google robot first crawl your website and after it indexed on own server.