Crawling and Indexing

[rajivdevkk]

Crawling and Indexing. What is crawling and indexing ?

[sagarpatel8]

Crawling 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).

[brainmoore]

Crawling and indexing terms and techniques used by search engines to process their work. Search engines work is to gather online world information in one place in their SERPs specific to any query. In this gathering process, bots send on servers which fetches websites and analyze them, this process is called crawling. And when any page or data is crawled then it goes into indexing of SE, to retrieve that detail when query done similar to that, indexing depends on thousand of factors that will out of my knowledge only SE knows that.

[RH-Calvin]

Crawling is the reading of the webpage content by the search engine spiders, where indexing refers to the storage of the webpage data in search engines after it has been crawled.

[edwina]

Crawling is a search engine spider does to a website to gather the relevant data used to rank the website for the search engine.
Indexed – If a web page is included in a search engine’s index of the web.

[ailsahoxha12]

Thanks for sharing this information.

[alexjames212]

thank you sagarpatel8 , this was informative.

[jaysh4922]

Crawling means the search engine optimization robot crawl or fetch the web pages while Indexing means search engine optimization robot crawl the web pages, saved the information and it appear in the search engine optimization.

[christimathews]

Crawling and Indexing are the two most important aspects of a Search Engine Bot which makes sure that your webpage gets visible in the Search Engine Results Page.

[sanamgupta]

Crawling means traverse the billions of interlinked pages on the world wide web.
After a web page or document has been detected by crawlers, all its accessible data is cached on search engine servers so it can be retrieved when a user performs a search query.

[david14beck]

Crawling: Crawling defines the ability of a search engine to traverse the billions of interlinked pages on the world wide web. It is the process by which search engines discover updated content on the web, such as new sites or pages, changes to existing sites, and dead links.
Indexing: Indexing will take place after a crawled URIs are processed. There may be several URIs that are crawled but there could be fewer of them whose content will be processed through indexing.

[davidweb09]

Crawling:- search engine bot read your website.
Indexing:– when a web page is included in a search engine.

[ShreyaKoushik]

Crawling- Crawling takes place when there is a successful fetching of unique URIs which can be traced from valid links from other web pages.

Indexing- Indexing takes place after a crawled URIs are processed. Note that there may be several URIs that are crawled but there could be fewer of them whose content will be processed through indexing.

[nancy07]

Crawling is basically when the search engine spider visits a page

Indexing is when the spider records the page and starts displaying the page in search or counting the link for SERP movement.

[david hong]

Crawl (crawl - to follow the path already available) is a term that describes the process of collecting data on the website of the search engine bots. This action is such as crawl because during their data collection, the bots will in turn visit each link on the page that it encounters, and continue to collect data on the links Red lips. And this process is only stopped when all links on the front page as well as the relevant pages have been "crawled" out.