Wow, thanks for all the replies! This makes way more sense now. I had no idea crawlers did so much beyond just indexing.
Gonna check out Screaming Frog and Common Crawl—seems like a fun way to see how it works firsthand.
Quick follow-up: Do crawlers prioritize certain sites over others? Like, do big websites get crawled more often?
Gonna check out Screaming Frog and Common Crawl—seems like a fun way to see how it works firsthand.
Quick follow-up: Do crawlers prioritize certain sites over others? Like, do big websites get crawled more often?