What is the difference between Crawling and Indexing?

Crawling is the process of a search engine bot or crawler, visiting websites on the internet to collect information or data from those websites. The crawler goes through each page on a website, following links and collecting data such as page titles, descriptions, keywords, and content. This process is done to gather as much information as possible about a website and its pages.

Indexing, on the other hand, is the process of organizing the data collected during the crawling process into a searc

Crawling is a process which is done by search engine bots to discover publicly available web pages. Indexing means when search engine bots crawl the web pages and saves a copy of all information on index servers and search engines show the relevant results on search engine when a user performs a search query.

Crawling - When the bots crawl a web page.
Indexing - Page starts appearing on SERP.

Page first get crawled and then indexed.

Crawling - When the bots crawl a web page.
Indexing - Page starts appearing on SERP.

Page first get crawled and then indexed.

Crawling is when Google, Bing, or other search engines sends a bot to an internet page or web post and “read” the page. Crawling is that the first part of having an inquiry engine recognize your page and show it in search results is called Crawling.
indexing is that the process of adding sites into Google search. It is depending upon you which meta tag is used (index or NO-index), Google will crawl and index your pages is called indexing.

In crawling, spiders just crawl the website but in indexing not only crawl but also index website or web pages in their database.