What is crawling and indexing?

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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.

The indexing of your content by Google is determined by system algorithms that take into account user demand and quality checks. You can influence the Google indexing process by how you manage the discovery of your content, which relies on the URL of the page.
This document introduces the notion of getting into the Google index by helping you decide how to manage discovery of your content by Google, which is the first step in the indexing process.