How Search Engines Crawl and Index Your Site

MakkPress Technologies
Jul 23
1 min read

Crawling versus indexing

Crawling and indexing are two different steps and confusing them causes a lot of wasted effort. A crawler discovers a page by following links; indexing is the separate decision about whether to store it.

This is why internal linking basics matter so much. Without a path of links, a crawler may never discover a page at all.

Crawl budget is rarely a problem for a small blog, but it becomes one as a site grows into thousands of pages. Broken links and long redirect chains waste it.

If you want to audit this yourself, read more about crawl diagnostics. A broken outbound link like that one is exactly what a link audit should flag.

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