What is crawling?

Crawlingis the process in which search engines use automated bots (crawlers) to scour the web to discover and read pages.The crawler follows links from page to page, collecting content that can then be indexed.Without crawling, Google won’t know your pages exist.How does crawling

work?A crawler,

such as Googlebot, starts at known pages and follows the links it encounters.New and changed pages are discovered this way.A good internal link structure and an up-to-date sitemapsitemapcrawlers navigate your site efficiently.Send

crawlingWith

therobots.txtfile you indicate which parts of your site may or may not be crawled.This way you prevent unimportant pages from consuming unnecessary crawl budget.This istechnical SEOtechnical

SEO.Crawling versus

indexingCrawling is discovering and reading aindexingis storing it in the search index.A page must first be crawled before it can be indexed and displayed.What is crawl

budget?That’s the

number of pages a search engine crawls on your site in a given time.Efficient crawling is especially important for large sites.How often does Google

crawl my site?That depends on

the size, authority and update frequency of your website.