Search Engine Crawler

A search engine crawler is an automated program that requests and examines online resources to discover content and follow links. Googlebot is an example of a crawler used by Google Search. A crawler may reach a cleaning company's service page through internal links or a known URL, but a successful visit does not guarantee that the page will be indexed or rank well. The crawler is the software agent; crawling is the activity it performs. Access can be affected by server errors, robots rules, or other technical conditions. Website owners should distinguish authentic crawler activity from unrelated automated requests and consult the search engine's documentation when configuring access.