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September 4, 2020 @ 6:17 AM By BRIJESH PRAJAPATI
Understanding website crawling and how search engines crawl and index websites can be a confusing topic. Everyone does it a little bit differently, but the overall concepts are the same. Here is a quick breakdown of things you should know about how search engines crawl your website. (I’m not getting into the algorithms, keywords, or any of that stuff, simply how search engines crawl sites.)
Website Crawling is the automated fetching of web pages by a software process, the purpose of which is to index the content of websites so they can be searched. The crawler analyzes the content of a page looking for links to the next pages to fetch and index.
Two of the most common types of crawls that get content from a website are:
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There definitely are different types of crawlers. But one of the most important questions is, “What is a crawler?” A crawler is a software process that goes out to websites and requests the content as a browser would. After that, an indexing process actually picks out the content it wants to save. Typically the content that is indexed is any text visible on the page.
Different search engines and technologies have different methods of getting a web site’s content with crawlers:
That’s what we strive for at Hir Infotech, but it isn’t always possible. Typically, any difficulty crawling a website has more to do with the site itself and less with the crawler attempting to crawl it. The following issues could cause a crawler to fail:
All of these methods are usually employed to save bandwidth for the owner of the website or to prevent malicious crawler processes from accessing content. Some site owners simply don’t want their content to be searchable. One would do this kind of thing, for example, if the site was primarily a personal site, and not really intended for a general audience.
I think it is also important to note here that robots.txt and meta directives are really just a “gentlemen’s agreement”, and there’s nothing to prevent a truly impolite crawler from crawling.
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There are steps you can take to build your website in such a way that it is easier for search engines to crawl it and provide better search results. The end result will be more traffic to your site and enable your readers to find your content more effectively.
To learn more about configuring robots.txt and how to manage it for your site, visit http://www.robotstxt.org/. Or contact us here at Hir Infotech. We want you to be a successful blogger, and understanding website crawling is one of the most important steps.
About the author:
Hir Infotech is a leading global outsourcing company with its core focus on offering web scraping, data extraction, lead generation, data scraping, Data Processing, Digital marketing, Web Design & Development, Web Research services and developing web crawler, web scraper, web spiders, harvester, bot crawlers, and aggregators’ softwares. Our team of dedicated and committed professionals is a unique combination of strategy, creativity, and technology.