--- title: "The Google Crawling and Indexing concept..." description: "Where the web crawler, or what those in the SEO world call spiders or bots, is an automated program that follows Google’s algorithm to examine the con" author: "Anonymous User" published: 2020-10-14 canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/324295/the-google-crawling-and-indexing-concept category: "google" tags: ["google analytics", "google"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # The Google Crawling and Indexing concept... ### 1) Crawling Where the web crawler, or what those in the [SEO](https://www.mindstick.com/services/search-engine-optimization) world call spiders or bots, is an automated program that follows [Google](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/323590/google)’s algorithm to examine the content and structure of pages. \ And Google wants you to include the following information for it to easier understand your content; title tags, [Meta descriptions](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/11826/how-to-write-meta-descriptions-for-seo), headings, content, and more. \ That is the reason for this is so that the bots can interpret the content, categories, and products within a page. \ These are different strategies that can be placed within the code to make sure that the bots are able to crawl a page in the most effectively and efficiently. - Create a sitemap – holds a complete list of a website’s pages and primarily lets bots know what to crawl - Add Schema – a “roadmap” for the bots to crawl a page productively - Disallow content within the Robots.txt file that isn’t necessary to search - Site speed – if a page loads too slow the robot will leave before it can crawl the full page ### ![The Google Crawling and Indexing concept...](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/9e2da8cd-7d59-4db1-90aa-df1def55bf45/images/fd79f144-2b4d-4b7b-a8b4-81738e55f084.jpeg)\ ### 2) Indexing So far I have understood Google's indexing concept is that the google search index is a database that stores billions of web pages. \ The [Google search index](https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/crawling-indexing/) mobilizes the content within the web that has been crawled, which can be easier [described as](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/38444/who-will-head-the-3-member-committee-appointed-by-the-supreme-court-to-reform-the-medical-council-of-india-mci-which-the-supreme-court-described-as-unprofessional) a library for Google. \ If an Internet user writes a query, google searches the index to find the most relevant and applicable pages for the user. \ If the crawlers find a web page they render the content. And the webpages are then indexed into Google searches database. \ In to the below are a few ways to [ensure that your](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/23198/3-steps-to-ensure-that-your-client-portal-is-impeccable) pages are getting indexed - Submitting a sitemap to [Google Search Console](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/99045/what-is-the-use-of-the-google-search-console) – a way to help [search engines](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/84292/how-do-search-engines-like-google-and-bing-rank-pages) perceive [your website](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/85950/why-organic-search-is-the-game-changer-for-your-website) - Submitting pages for indexing to Google Search Console – tells Google you have updated content. Google likes updated content - Create a blog – websites with [blogs](https://www.mindstick.com/developersection/blog) get indexed more --- Original Source: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/324295/the-google-crawling-and-indexing-concept Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.