Crawling & Indexing
If Google cannot crawl and index your pages, they simply do not exist in search. Browse our guides to make sure every important page on your site is crawled and indexed properly.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Get answers to common crawling and indexing questions and learn how search engines discover, process, and index pages.
What is crawling in SEO?
Crawling is the process where search engine bots discover and access web pages by following links. During crawling, search engines collect information about your pages to understand content and determine whether they should be processed for indexing.
What is indexing in SEO?
Indexing is the process of storing and organizing information about a web page after a search engine crawls it. If a page meets the search engine’s requirements, it gets added to its index and becomes eligible to appear in search results.
What is the difference between crawling and indexing?
Crawling is when the search engine bots discover and visit a web page. Indexing is when the search engine stores information about that page. A page can be crawled without being indexed.
How can you check whether a page is indexed?
You can check a page’s indexing status using Google Search Console’s URL Inspection tool, which shows whether Google has indexed the URL and provides additional indexing information. You can also search Google using site:yourdomain.com/page-url to see whether the specific page appears in search results.