What is difference between crawling, indexing and caching?

Posted by Pankaj Sharma
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Jan 20, 2017
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SCI Interactive
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Digital Marketing Agency

Crawling- Google sends its spiders to your website..
Indexing- Google visited your website and has added you to its database..

Caching- Google took a snapshot of your website when it last visited and stored the data in case your website went down or if there are some any other issues.

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Gary Barlow
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Business Owner

Correct, and just because a search engine crawls your site it doesn't mean it will be indexed.

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Dan White
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Independent Internet Professional

CRAWLING = search engine bot went to website and crawled through the content following each link.

INDEXING = following crawling the search engine bot will decide if your content is worth including or indexing in the search results.

CACHING = storing a version of a page from when it was last crawled... also for easy recall/display search engines can show the cached version (this may not be the latest up to date version of the page it is a stored snapshot that can be displayed just like browser

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Pratik Shah
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Digital Marketing Manager at Brush Your Ideas

I agree with @Solah Aana's answer

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Victoria Brinsley
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Mobile App Developer

Hi.. Good Question. Crawling is the process of search engine requesting and successfully downloading a unique URL.
Indexing is the result of successful crawling. I consider a URL to be indexed by Google when a query produces a result, signifying the URL’s presence in the Google index.

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kapil Mehta
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# Guest Blogger

Crawling means search engine checked your web page.
Indexing means when search engine shows your web pages in serial order.
Caching means when search engine shows you date and time when it crawled your web page.

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Stefanie Carson
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Interior Decorator

Crawling- Google sends its spiders to your website..
Indexing- Google visited your website and has added you to its database..

Caching- Google toook a snapshot of your website when it last visited and stored the data in case your website went down or if there are some any other issues.

Dec 15, 2016 Like it
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Susan Mary
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Custom Logo Designer

Google crawls your site and then indexes what it sees as a cached version of the page.
The page may change in design before they crawl and then re-index the new page hence the term cache is used as almost a caveat to say that the page may've changed since they crawled it.

If your webpages aren't crawled then they can't be indexed. Making sure your site can be crawled by bots is a priority. Set up a Google Webmaster Tools account and then submit a XML sitemap to help Google crawl and index it.

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Cameron Amelia
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Automotive Paint Suppliers Sydney

Term Crawling define the very first step of search engine where google bot visit and checked your web page.
After crawling, google work on second step called Indexing. Here search engine managed and added your website in its database.
Another or last step called Caching. It means google show the details of last visited and crawled your website.

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Jeet Kaushik
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Digital Marketer, Web Designer

Crawling - Google sends its spiders to your website..
Indexing - Google visited your website and has added you to its database..
Caching - Google took a snapshot of your website when it last visited and stored the data in case your website went down or if there are some any other issues.

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ivan simeonov
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marketer

i dont know byt i think good seo is important for every site or blog
good luck on all online

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Solah Aana
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Online Shopping Store

Crawling+Caching at same time...

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Pankaj Sharma
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Digital Marketing Professional

Hi Solah,
Which activity firstly performed by Google?

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Solah Aana
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Online Shopping Store

Crawling means search engine checked your web page.
Indexing means when search engine shows your web pages in serial order.
Caching means when search engine shows you date and time when it crawled your web page.

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