Technical SEO
Crawling
Crawling is the process by which search engine bots discover pages on the web by following links and reading content.
A crawler like Googlebot fetches a page, reads its content and links, then queues the new links it finds. If a page cannot be crawled, it generally cannot be indexed or ranked. Clear internal linking and a clean sitemap help crawlers find everything that matters.
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