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What is the difference between crawling and indexing?

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    Crawling means to visit the link by SEs and indexing means to put the page contents in DB (after analysis) and make them available in search results when a request is made.

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    they are referring to the programs that search engines use to scan and analyze websites in order to determine their importance, and thus their ranking in the results of internet searches for certain keywords.

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    Crawling means the search engine robot crawl or fetch the web pages while Indexing means search engine robot crawl the web pages.
    An index is another name for the database used by a search engine.

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    thanks,i meet this problem

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    A web directory could be likened to the traditional yellow phone book directory. With a web directory, you have a bunch of websites that are placed in various categories. When you click on the category page, you will have a list of websites. Each website will have a title that comes in the form of a link, and they will all have descriptions which tell you what the site is about. By reading these descriptions, you will be able to determine whether or not you're interested in visiting the website. Link farms are the exact opposite.

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    Search engine indexing collects, parses, and stores data to facilitate fast and accurate information retrieval

    Crawling is the process by which Googlebot discovers new and updated pages to be added to the Google index.

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    Crawling means Google visits the website and check whether it's following guidelines or not.

    Indexing means Google save the website in it's database and shows results.

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    indexing is when a page gets into search engines, and crawling is the process when the page gets fetched

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    Crawling and indexing are two distinct things and this is commonly misunderstood in the SEO industry. 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. They aren't mutually inclusive.

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