What is the diference between indexing and crawling?

[jonathan brown]

Hi,

Crawling:
Crawling (or spidering) is when Google (or other search engines) send a bot to a web page or web post and “read” the page. Don’t let this be confused with having that page being indexed. Crawling is the first part of having a search engine recognize your page and show it in search results. Having your page crawled, however, does not necessarily mean your page was indexed and will be found. Pages are crawled for a variety of reasons, and the most common is having an XML sitemap that Google reads and then points to your new page.


Indexing:
Having your page Indexed by Google is the next step after it gets crawled. As stated, it does not mean that every site that gets crawled get indexed, but every site indexed had to be crawled. If Google deems your new page worthy to be used, then Google will index it. After your page is indexed, Google then comes up with how your page should be found in their search.