What influences the crawler’s behavior?
Following are the factors which affects crawler’s behavior
- It has a crawl budget, means the number of pages that it will crawl is limited in a specific time period if the crawl limit of day of your site is over than crawlers wont crawl more pages
- Crawl demand represents interest of google in a particular website.
- There are various algorithms which guide the crawlers which links to follow, prioritizing pages on basis of relevance and freshness, no indexing duplicate pages.
- It respects directives and meta tags on webpages that indicate how certain content or pages should be handled, like noindex, nofollow, or nosnippet.
What is Crawling in SEO?
Crawling in SEO is a process to discover and update new pages on google index. Google crawlers are programs that Google uses to scan the web and find new or updated pages to add to its index. Google crawlers check all kind of content including text, images, videos, webpages, links etc. Google crawlers follow links from one page to another and obey the rules specified in robots.txt files.
In order to develop and maintain the search engine’s index, web crawling aims to thoroughly and methodically scour the internet for fresh content. Search engines can keep their search results current and relevant to users queries by regularly discovering and reviewing web pages.