Crawling and indexing

Overview of crawling and indexing topics

The topics in this section describe how you can control Google’s ability to find and parse
your content in order to show it in Search and other Google properties, as well as how to
prevent Google from crawling specific content on your site.

Here’s a brief description of each page. To get an overview of crawling and indexing, read
our How Search works guide.

Temas
File types indexable by GoogleGoogle can index the content of most types of pages and files. Explore a list of the
most common file types that Google Search can index.
URL structureConsider organizing your content so that URLs are constructed logically and in a manner that is most intelligible to humans.
SitemapsTell Google about pages on your site that are new or updated.
Crawler management
robots.txtA robots.txt file tells search engine crawlers which pages or files the crawler can or
can’t request from your site.
CanonicalizationLearn what URL canonicalization is and how to tell Google about any duplicate pages on
your site in order to avoid excessive crawling. Learn how Google auto-detects duplicate
content, how it treats duplicate content, and how it assigns a canonical URL to
any duplicate page groups found.
Mobile sitesLearn how you can optimize your site for mobile devices and ensure that it’s crawled and indexed properly.
AMPIf you have AMP pages, learn how AMP works in Google Search.
JavaScriptThere are some differences and limitations that you need to account for when designing your
pages and applications to accommodate how crawlers access and render your content.
Page and content metadata
Removals
Site moves and changes
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Crawling and indexing is where we find the fastest wins on inherited sites. Before touching content we confirm Google can fetch, render and index the templates, because a beautifully written page that is blocked earns nothing.

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