What is the difference between indexed and crawling?

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What is the difference between indexed and crawling?

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    What is the difference between indexed and crawling?
     
    Tuhin Eternal Spring, Mar 31, 2015 IP
  2. Mkcoy

    Mkcoy Well-Known Member

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    Crawling: When a Search Engine spider(s) literally crawls your site following all the internal and external links. (Unless its a nofollow link).

    Example <a href="site.com/link" rel="nofollow">

    Indexed: When a Search Engine has crawled your site with a spider and stored what it saw in its database (index) (Unless it has noindex tag).

    Example <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
     
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    braulio Active Member

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    Crawled = > Search engine ( yahoo, bing, google, google mobile ) visited your site and did an exploratory visit. The bot ( robot ) took inventory of your website architecture, pages, images, pdf files.

    Index = > The action of adding pages, images, pdf files to the search engine database. When a user hits a keyword associated with your page, image,pdf file the search engine says Eureka I know something of interest in this query ( search ).

    The goal is to have all your crawled pages indexed. You may have 20 pages crawled but only 3 were indexed.

    The process is a journey that you have to review daily and keep working on your content, speed, keyword content, title tags, etc etc etc.

    Hope this helps.

    Good luck,

    Braulio
     
    braulio, Mar 31, 2015 IP
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    AlkalinoS Greenhorn

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    Hello,

    Braulio's explanation is pretty clear but here is a pretty good video describing the differences: http://www.google.ca/insidesearch/howsearchworks/crawling-indexing.html

    Simon
     
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    meethi jain Active Member

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    it is the process of Google, to show your website on google serp
     
    meethi jain, May 9, 2015 IP
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    Yes, i agree with mkcoy.
     
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    Aryans Well-Known Member

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    Well Small thing but should be clear to everyone, nice thread and nice explanation from everyone specially Braulio...
     
    Aryans, May 11, 2015 IP