johnniewalk
Member
Can anyone explain the exact meaning of crawling and indexing?
Crawling is the process of reading through your webpage source by search engine crawlers. They are responsible to provide a cache certificate after a success crawl. Indexing is the updating of your crawled webpages in search engines, so that these pages are ready for search engine ranking.
You have nicely explained the both termsCrawling means follow a path. In SEO word, crawling means following your links and crawling your Website. When bots come to your Website (On any page), it follows other linked page and crawl your site. This is one reason we create site map, as it contains all the links of our blog and bots uses it to deep crawl our pages.
In layman word, Indexing is the process of adding Webpages into Google search. Depending upon what meta tag you used for your page (Index or NO-index), Google crawl and index your pages. No-index means that page will not be added in Web search. By default any WordPress post or pages are indexable. A good idea for better search engine ranking is to let only vital part of your blog/Website be in index and do not index un-necessary archive like tags, categories and all such pages.