In the world of search engine optimization (SEO), two important terms that you may come across are "indexed" and "crawled" content. While these terms are related, they refer to different aspects of how search engines like Google find and organize information on the internet.
Here's a breakdown of the difference between indexed and crawled content:
Crawling: Search engines use automated software called crawlers or spiders to scan the internet for content. These crawlers follow links from one webpage to another, collecting information about each page as they go. The process of crawling is essentially the discovery phase of search engine indexing, where the search engine discovers new web pages and updates its index of known pages.
Indexing: After the search engine crawls a webpage, it adds it to its index - a large database of web pages that it has discovered and analyzed. The index includes information about each page's content, structure, and metadata, such as the page title, description, and keywords. This information is used by the search engine to match relevant web pages with user search queries.
In summary, crawling is the process of discovering new web pages and updating the search engine's knowledge of the web, while indexing is the process of analyzing and organizing the content of those web pages in a way that is searchable and relevant to users.
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