How Google discovers pages (crawling) in SEO Fundamentals - Interactive Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the sentence to explain how Google finds new pages.

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Google starts crawling the web by following [1] from known pages.

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Avideos

Bimages

Clinks

Dads

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Common Mistakes

Choosing images or videos instead of links.

Google discovers new pages by following links from pages it already knows.

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medium

Complete the sentence to describe what Google uses to find new pages.

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Google uses a program called a [1] to browse the internet automatically.

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Acrawler

Bindexer

Cadvertiser

Dserver

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Common Mistakes

Confusing crawler with indexer or server.

The program Google uses to browse the web automatically is called a crawler.

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hard

Fix the error in the sentence about Google's crawling process.

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Google discovers pages only by [1] URLs manually submitted by website owners.

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Ablocking

Bignoring

Cdeleting

Dfollowing

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Common Mistakes

Thinking Google only uses manual URL submissions.

Google does not rely only on manually submitted URLs; it discovers pages by following links automatically.

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hard

Fill both blanks to complete the explanation of crawling.

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Googlebot starts with a list of [1] and then [2] links on those pages to find new URLs.

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Aknown URLs

Bignores

Cfollows

Drandom pages

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Common Mistakes

Choosing 'ignores' instead of 'follows' for link behavior.

Googlebot begins with a list of known URLs and follows links on those pages to discover new URLs.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to describe how Google updates its index.

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After crawling, Google [1] the page content, [2] it for relevance, and [3] it in the search index.

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Aanalyzes

Bevaluates

Cstores

Dignores

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Common Mistakes

Choosing 'ignores' instead of 'stores' for the last step.

Google analyzes the page content, evaluates it for relevance, and stores it in the search index.