What is crawling & indexing?

[rscomponentseo]

What is crawling & indexing?

[neelseowork]

Crawling means that Googlebot looks at all the content on the page and analyzes it.
Indexing means that the page is eligible to show up in Google's search results.

[sophiawils59]

Crawling and indexing are two distinct things and this is commonly misunderstood in the SEO industry. Crawling means that Googlebot looks at all the content/code on the page and analyzes it. Indexing means that the page is eligible to show up in Google's search results.

[ritesh3592]

Crawling is the process in which the search engine sends out a number of bots to find out new and updated content on the World Wide Web. Indexing is the process of getting your website content added to the search engine database.

[naksh]

Crawling means when search engine (Google, Bing etc..) crawler or bot fetch your website data. Indexing means when search engine (Google, Bing etc..) put your website on that search results.