Glossary term
What is Crawling?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Crawling" means: When a search engine's program visits a web address, downloads the page and follows its links to find more pages. It is taught in SEO for Beginners: Get Found on Google. Related terms include SEO (search engine optimization), Googlebot, Indexing and Serving and ranking.
- 1 course teaches it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Crawling?
When a search engine's program visits a web address, downloads the page and follows its links to find more pages.
Where is Crawling taught?
Crawling is defined in SEO for Beginners: Get Found on Google.
Which lessons cover Crawling?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- SEO for Beginners: Get Found on Google, lesson 1.1: How Google Finds, Stores and Shows Pages
- SEO for Beginners: Get Found on Google, lesson 5.1: Robots.txt and Noindex: Do Not Crawl Versus Do Not Show
Which terms are related to Crawling?
Next to Crawling in the course glossaries: SEO (search engine optimization), Googlebot, Indexing, Serving and ranking and Query.
SEO (search engine optimization)GooglebotIndexingServing and rankingQuery
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Crawling?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- SEO for Beginners: Get Found on Google: A real website to work on (your own, an employer's or a client's with written permission) or a practice site that you plan and describe in detail.