What is the Google Spider And How Does It Work?

What is the Google Spider And How Does It Work?

One of the basic terms in SEO and which you must have read by now is Google Spider. But what exactly is this and how does it actually work? Let us break down for you the gist of Google site indexing.

One of the basic terms in SEO and which you must have read by now is Google Spider. But what exactly is this and how does it actually work? Let us break down for you the gist of Google site indexing.

What Is The Google Spider And What Does It Do For Your Site?
Google Spider is basically Google’s crawler. A crawler is a program/algorithm designed by search engines to crawl and track websites and web pages as a way of indexing the internet.

When Google visits your website for tracking/indexing purposes, this process is done by Google’s Spider crawler. Once the spider visits your web page, the results are potentially put onto Google’s index, or, as we know it, a search engine results page (SERP). The better and smoother the crawling process, potentially the higher your website will rank.

Crawling means following a path, and in the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) world, this means following the links that appear on your website. This is one reason why site maps are created; they can contain all of the links in a website being used by Google’s bots to look deeply into it.

Given that thousands of new web pages are developed and published every day with even more web pages being constantly updated and redesigned, the Google Spider goes through the web analyzing pages, code and links it can find basing itself on metrics of.

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