Stop! You need to know this 👇👇👇 Here’s one of the most common mistakes many SEOs make: They confuse crawling and indexing. But it’s crucial to know the difference. Crawling is a process where a bot (such as Googlebot) downloads information about a page, and discovers the content and links on it. You as a technical SEO control this process through the robots.txt file. This is the first file Googlebot checks when it “comes” to your website to crawl it. Indexing is a process of saving your page in the database so that Google can quickly pull those saved pages and show them as search results when people google something. You as a technical SEO control the indexing process using the meta robots tag. The issues arise when you confuse robots.txt and meta robots. The most common issues I see: ❌ Using both robots.txt and meta robots to disable crawling and indexing of a page simultaneously ❌ Using robots.txt to remove the pages from Google’s index ❌ Using meta robots to control the crawl budget I created an easy scheme to help you never confuse crawling and indexing again.

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