SEO

Crawling

Terms

6 terms

  • Crawl budget

    Crawl budget is the number of URLs a search engine crawler can and wants to fetch from a site in a given period, set by server…

  • Crawl error

    A crawl error occurs when a search engine crawler tries to fetch a site or URL and fails because of DNS, server, robots.txt or HTTP status…

  • Crawl rate

    Crawl rate is the speed at which a search engine crawler requests pages from a website, usually measured in requests per second or per day.

  • Googlebot

    Googlebot is the web crawler of Google Search that discovers, fetches and renders pages so they can be considered for indexing and ranking in SEO.

  • Robots.txt

    Robots.txt is a plain-text file at a site's root that tells web crawlers which URL paths they may crawl, shaping crawling and crawl budget in SEO.

  • Web crawler

    A web crawler is an automated program that discovers and fetches web pages by following links, supplying search engines with the content they index.