How Google Indexes Your Site

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How Google Indexes Your Site

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Before you even worry about how your site pages will rank in Google, it's important to understand how Google's search engine finds and indexes the results it displays to users.

Google indexes your site through crawling and indexing .

Crawling is the process of turkey cell phone number list scanning the site by Google bots, which are programs that analyze the content of web pages.
Indexing is the process of entering pages into Google's database.
When a user performs a search, Google searches the index for pages that contain the searched keywords and displays them in the search results.

Google uses software called a web spider or crawler to analyze web pages.

A web spider downloads a copy of a given web page. Imagine for a moment that Googlebot (that's what Google calls its web spider) lands on a page of your site. Googlebot will note the content on the page, such as text and images or, in the case of an e-commerce site, the product name, description, price, but it will also track the many links on the page.

Then, unless the link or robots.txt file explicitly tells Googlebot not to follow it, the spider will follow links to each page and catalog what it finds.

Whenever Googlebot encounters a link to a new page, it adds the URL to the list of pages to be analyzed. This way, it can discover all the pages on your site.

That’s why your site needs to do a good job with internal linking if you want to make it easier for Googlebot to find all of your pages.
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