What is Crawling in SEO?

[swikriti.sharma]

A web crawler also known as a web spider or web robot is a program which browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner.This process is called web crawling or spidering. Many sites, in particular search engines, use spidering as a means of providing up-to-date data. Web crawlers are mainly used to create a copy of all the visited pages for later processing by a search engine that will index the downloaded pages to provide fast searches.

[praveenitech1]

Crawling is the process performed by search engine crawlers in order to index the website. Mainly the crawlers find the new and updated web pages and perform the crawling.

[wamasoftware]

Crawling basically means following a path. In the SEO world, crawling means following your links and “crawling” around your website. When bots come to your website (any page), they follow other linked pages also on your website.

[salenaadam]

Crawling is a programs that search engines use to scan and analyze websites in order to determine their importance then rank the results of internet searches for certain keywords.

[EmilyPete]

Crawling is the process performed by search engine crawler, when searching for relevant websites on the index.