What is web Crawling?

[kalmakuran]

Hello friends,

I want to know that What is web Crawling?

[hynds]

Web 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.

This is one reason why we create site maps, as they contain all of the links in our blog and Google’s bots can use them to look deeply into a website.

The way we stop crawling certain parts of our site is by using the Robots.txt file.

[RoyJones]

A Web crawler is an Internet bot which Web crawlers help in collecting information about a website. They crawl one page at a time through a website until all pages have been indexed.

[gurujeet]

A search engine crawler is a program or automated script that browses the World Wide Web in a methodical manner in order to provide up to date data to the particular search engine. While search engine crawlers go by many different names, such as web spiders and automatic indexers, the job of the search engine crawler is still the same.