What is the difference between crawlers, spiders and robots in SEO?
 

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What is the difference between crawlers, spiders and robots in SEO?

A search engine spider or crawler or robot are one thing in different name. They are an automated software programs that used to locate and collect data from web pages for inclusion in a search engine's database and to follow links to find new pages on the World Wide Web.

The search engine ,crawler, and robot they all are the same name. they crawl the website and rank page in SERP

Spider - a browser like program that downloads web pages.

Crawler – a program that automatically follows all of the links on each web page.

Robots - An automated computer program that visit websites & perform predefined task. They are guided by search engine algorithms & are able to perform different tasks instead of just one crawling task. They can combine the tasks of crawler & spider together and help in indexing and ranking of websites on any particular search engine.

crawler, Spider and robot are the same name

A search engine spider or crawler or robot are same thing with different name. These are programs used by search engines to explore the Internet and automatically download web content available on web sites. They capture the text of the pages and the links found, and thus enable search engine users to find new pages.