Difference between Crawling & Indexing?

Crawling means that Googlebot looks at all the content/code on the page and analyzes it. Indexing means that the page is eligible to show up in Google's search results.

Crawling is the process or reading through your webpage source by search engine spiders. They provide a cache certificate after a successful crawl. Indexing is updating the cached webpages in search engine database. Indexed webpages are now ready for search engine rankings.

google can index without crawling. Crawling is when Google or another search engine send a bot to a web page or web post and "read" the page. Index is having your page Indexed by Google is the next step after it gets crawled.

Crawling is a process of scanning the website pages while indexing is a process of storing the information within the databases of search engines.

Crawling means see all content on the pages and analyzes it. Indexing is the process of adding web pages into Google search.

Search engine(Google bot) will crawl(reads) all the websites and understands the website this process is called crawling. After crawling the websites google bot will index those results in search engine this process is called indexing.

crawling means following your links and "crawling" around your website. When bots come to your website (any page), they follow other linked pages also on your website.

indexing is the process of adding web pages into Google search. Depending upon which meta tag you used (index or NO-index), Google will crawl and index your pages. A no-index tag means that that page will not be added to the web search's index.

Quote from: sinelogixtech on January 02, 2019, 11:40:20 PM
Difference between Crawling & Indexing?

Crawling means that Googlebot looks at all the content/code on the page and analyzes it. Indexing means that the page is eligible to show up in Google's search results

Crawling and indexing are two different things and this is generally misunderstood in the SEO industry. Crawling means that Googlebot views all of the content/code on a page and analyzes it. Indexing means that the page is eligible to appear in Google search results. They are not mutually inclusive.

that Googlebot views and analyzes all content / code on the page are specified as crawling. Indexing means that the page is eligible to appear in Google's search results.

Crawling and indexing are two complete different aspects. Crawling is the process which leads to indexing. Crawling means that Google's crawler collect and analyzes all the required data on the page. Indexing means collection of web pages and other relevant information crawled by search engine spiders which are required to show the page up in Google's search results.