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Crawling

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Author: Colin McDermott

What is crawling?

Crawling is the process by which a bots visit resources on a website.

In the search engine indexing process, crawling is when a search engine bot (such as Googlebot), visits a web resource in order to view, parse, and then if required index the resource.

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