Good morning, Marketers, “What’s the difference between crawling, rendering, indexing and ranking?”
Aside from this being a great question to ask when hiring for SEO positions, understanding the key stages of search – crawling, rendering, indexing and ranking – is essential for all SEO professionals. Why? Because it isn’t just semantics. These four stages are all separate, technical processes.
Make sure to read Search Engine Land contributor Chris Silver Smith’s excellent, in-depth refresher on how search engines work.
Danny Goodwin,
Managing Editor, Search Engine Land & SMX
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