Web crawler basics

Scope of this page

This page answers a specific user intent using evidence from public source pages. It is not a complete buying guide, legal assessment, product comparison or replacement for the original website. Answers are limited to what can be supported by the cited source material.

Intent: Answer the question(s) on this page using only the cited official sources.

Topic: Crawling Spider Your Website

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Primary source: https://internetwarriors.de/en/blog/crawling-the-spider-on-your-website

Quick Info

Crawling means a bot analyzes all content on a page. That includes text, images, and CSS files.

Purpose and usage

This page provides short, extractable answers for the topic above.

Key points

  • What does indexing mean for a webpage?: Indexing means a webpage is eligible to be displayed in Google search results.
  • At which step does indexing play a role?: In the indexing step, a webpage becomes eligible to be displayed in Google search results.

Terms and entities

Canonical definitions live on the Facts pages. This page only references them.

What does crawling mean on a website?

Crawling means a bot analyzes all content on a page. That includes text, images, and CSS files.

What does indexing mean for a webpage?

Indexing means a webpage is eligible to be displayed in Google search results.

At which step does indexing play a role?

In the indexing step, a webpage becomes eligible to be displayed in Google search results.

Sources

  1. https://internetwarriors.de/en/blog/crawling-the-spider-on-your-website

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