When you publish content on the internet with thorough research and brainstorming. What do you expect from that article in return? Of course, more visitors, higher audience engagement, right? But such results are only possible when your website has got the green light from Google or other search engines. That is where the website crawling comes in. Have you done all steps necessary in your site’s crawling? If not, let’s learn about what is crawling and its vital information.
This Chapter Contains:
Steps For Submitting Your Website For Crawling
Is It Necessary To Submit My Website For Crawling?
Terms To Learn Before Understanding This Article
How Does Google Crawl Websites?
          Names Of Search Engine Crawlers
Reasons Your Webpage Is Not Crawled
Relationship Between Your Web Content SERP Ranking & Search Engine Crawling!
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What is Crawling in SEO?
A process where search engines identify new content/website through its URLs is crawling. A web crawler acknowledges your overall web content, including your page’s Title, Meta, Codes, and all mentioned content.Â
Each search engine has its algorithm and software to analyze web pages. For instance, Google’s bot crawls web content every second and identifies the hyperlink content for their further crawling. Therefore, it adds a new linked page into a queue to crawl them further when it finds a new linked page.
Moreover, Google knows how often a site needs to be crawled and how many pages to crawl from each site. In brief, the crawling process structures the unstructured data for the next step i.e “indexing.” But do you know you need to submit your website for crawling?Â
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7 Steps To Submit Your Website For Google Crawling
Since Google crawling works when it finds your website link on another site’s platform. However, backlinking may take time for Google to consider your website’s existence. Therefore, we recommend you manually submit your website for crawling. So, let’s explore these steps:
“If you have a newly developed website and want Google to acknowledge it, you need to visit Google Search Console.”
- Attach the website’s domain URL into the Google URL prefix.
- Perform your website ownership activity so that Google acknowledges that the site belongs to you.
- Use the second option and copy the HTML tag code as shown in the picture. Further, visit the “Appearance” button in your site’s backend.
- Then go to “Theme Editor,” and in this option go to the “Header.php” option that is visible on the right side of your site screen.
- Finally, you need to paste the copied HTML tag into the “<head>” section. Then simply update the page.
- Again, visit the Google search console and click on the “Verify” option.
- At last, your website ownership process is completed, and you can access the Console’s dashboard. Â
However, if the above-mentioned steps do not perform effectively for your website ownership.
Download HTML file code as shown and upload it to your site’s server through the root directory. However, this process takes a longer time to complete.
For A Quick Recap, Analyze Website Indexing Importance Because It’s The Next Major Step After Website Crawling!
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Importance of submitting your website in google search console
Ignoring crawling in SEO and Google web crawler is like avoiding the branding part of a business website after its launch. Click To Tweet
Let’s look at the top 7 importance of the Google Search Console.
- The console dashboard allows you to analyze your website’s problems and issues. Also, the “performance” tab shows your keywords’ performance and their ranking.
- You can track your website keywords and further strategize the keyword research.
- Additionally, the “URL Inspection” & “Coverage” tab helps you understand what problems Googlebot faces when it visits your website.
- Moving forward, the “Sitemap” feature helps you in updating them.
- Also, you can temporarily delete the webpage from the Google search console.
- Furthermore, you can also detect your website’s malware and viruses status. Therefore, you can track where your website.Â
- In addition, you can also explore your site’s backlink status. It explains the no. of backlinks your site is transacting with other online platforms.
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These Are Some Major Terminologies That You Should Know Before Analyzing The Google Crawling & Indexing
Robot.Txt File: It tells web crawlers what pages to crawl first with step by step process. For instance, the picture shows how Buzzfeed developers direct crawlers through the process of their webpage crawling.Â
Sitemap: Sitemaps showcase your website structure for crawling. It is a list of web pages that help users find the no. of pages a website has under a specific domain. Moreover, they help search engines identify your site to crawl in a structured manner. Example Shown Below.
Search Console:Â Â The webmaster manages your website indexing status, meaning you can track your previous published blogs’ performance. Therefore, you can easily analyze your web traffic, keywords & SERP ranking, and much more.
Backlinks: These are the links that SEO professionals place on other websites to increase a website’s domain and page authority. SEO backlink analysis is its example.
Crawl Budget:Â It is the no. of web pages of your site that Google crawls. The quantity of web page crawling depends upon the size and health of your website. So, if your site has malware and viruses, chances are Googlebot does not crawl a good amount of pages.Â
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Process Google Follows To Crawl Your Website
Once you submit the web page for crawling, Google performs these significant steps for crawling your web pages. Let’s dig deeper into it:
- Downloads Website’s Robot.txt File
- Identifies The Sitemap Having Linked Webpages
- Acknowledges Page’s Title, Meta, Codes, Body, & Other Relevant Information.
- It Also Adds Other Linked Pages For Further Crawling.
But, it is also crucial that you conduct complete SEO audit services for your online platform.
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These Are 9 Popular Search Engine Crawlers
Googlebot is the most popular web crawler introduced by Google. However, each search engine has its individual bots and software that crawls your website for indexing. So, let’s look at some popular search engine web crawlers.
- Bingbot
- Slurpbot  Â
- DuckDuckbot
- Baiduspider
- Yandexbot
- Sogou Spider
- Exabot
- Soso Spider
- Facebook External HitÂ
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6 Reasons Your Website Is Not Crawled On Google
There are major reasons why Google is not crawling your blog post or website. Their solutions are also mentioned so that the further step for your business website, i.e., “website indexing” can be done strategically. So, Let’s look at them:
- Your Crawling Budget could be a reason your website is not crawling. This is because the algorithm decides the crawl budget, and you cannot bid over this to increase the budget.Â
- Visit your Search console dashboard and click on “Coverage.” It shows overall crawl errors that you can resolve. Additionally, click on the “inspect URL” and “Test Robots.txt file” and analyze the crawling issues.
- Ensure your website does not block any search engine bot or web crawler. Therefore type “Robots.txt” next to your site’s domain name in the search bar. If it shows “*” in front of “User-agent,” then it means your platform is up to date for crawling.Â
- Mention your “Sitemap” in the “Robots.txt” file for fast indexing & crawling.
- Moving ahead, if any webpage or blog post is not crawled by Googlebot, ensure you have selected the “Index” option in the SEO settings in your backend.
- However, if you check overall activities and do not find any mistakes; click on the “Request Index.” It will help Google know that you have resolved all crawling errors and further Google and automatically index it. Moreover, ensure you know all other details on how you can get Google to crawl your site faster.
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Have You Done These Steps For Your Web Pages’ Crawling?
These importance, benefits, and steps are vital when you deal with a content writing and website development agency. If no one knows your business services and content, is that even beneficial to do all the hard work? That is why you should do whatever it takes to make your website visible to Google and your target audience. Therefore, these technical terminologies can be challenging for you to understand at first. But once, you start exploring Search Console and the Site’s backend, it becomes easier.
At last, when your overall website health improves, your content gets a better ranking on SERPs. Also, it’s always beneficial to go for a 20-min Free consultation over your website crawling and indexing-related issues. After all, you have spent hours in its development, so why not understand all aspects of Google Crawling from the experts themselves.Â
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