Technical SEO

Crawling

Also known as: website crawling · crawl

A program discovering and retrieving website resources, such as a search crawler.

A practical example

A crawler visits a category and discovers product links.

What should I know?

Fetching a page does not automatically add it to the index.

Technical SEO in practice

Check crawler access, server responses, and content processing separately. Then assess indexing and search appearance. These stages are connected but distinct and need different diagnostic methods.

Related Semly features

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Related terms

CrawlerA program that automatically visits pages and files to find information or collect data.IndexingProcessing and organizing information a system can later use in search results.robots.txtA file telling supporting crawlers which paths they may retrieve.

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