What is difference between indexing and crawling?

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    What is difference between indexing and crawling?
     
    parmar4710, Sep 23, 2010 IP
  2. Gretish

    Gretish Member

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    Hi,

    Crawling is the process of an engine requesting and successfully downloading a unique URL. Obstacles to crawling include no links to a URL, server downtime, robots exclusion, or using links (such as some JavaScript links) from which bots cannot find a valid URL.

    Indexing is the result of successful crawling. I consider a URL to be indexed (by Google) when an info: or cache: query produces a result, signifying the URL's presence in the Google index.
     
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    google uses spiders or crawlers on every web page.. once it crawls on the webpage having our link. our webpage gets indexed.. google uses crawlers from tym to tym.. keeps an eye on da website.
     
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