How Search Engines Work (Crawling, Indexing, Ranking) — Roadmap Step…
The three-stage pipeline every page goes through before it can appear in results
- Level: beginner
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: SEO & Content Marketing
Interview questions
- What's the difference between a page being crawled and a page being indexed?
Study resources
- How Search Engines Work: Crawling, Indexing, and Ranking (Article) — Moz's canonical explanation of crawling, indexing and ranking.
- How Google Search Works (Article) — Google's own official documentation explaining how Search actually works.
Part of
- SEO Foundations — section
- SEO & Content Marketing roadmap — the full learning path