Semalt Islamabad Expert – What Is A Web Crawler?

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23.05.2018

Semalt Islamabad Expert – What Is A Web Crawler?

The most important 'animal' that people should concern themselves with when it comes to search engine optimization is the spider. If you have read enough search engine optimization articles, you might have noticed that the authors refer to search engine crawlers quite often. They may have also mentioned that their work is to crawl websites and gone further to explain how they do so. If you may not have heard about search engine spiders, you might be wondering what a web crawler is. Trying to learn about them from consistent references to them may sound a little creepy. The following article provided by Michael Brown, a top expert from Semalt, will attempt to weave through the web of clarity and possibly lower any level of creepiness that learning about spiders may have brought upon you. When search engines need to rank a website page, they use a computer program or an algorithm to go through the internet in search of information in a methodical and automated manner. The automated program goes by many names. It is a web crawler, an automated indexer, bot, spider, or ant. The programs conduct a process called 'web crawling' to ensure that all the information gathered from the web pages is up-to-date. Therefore, the nickname "spider" seems be tting. The primary objective of the spiders is to create a copy of each of the pages it visits so that the search engines can process them. The search engine then indexes the pages so that they can provide their users with fast search https://rankexperience.com/articles/article1901.html

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