Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Discover the steps that go into how Google Search “crawls" or finds and fetches web pages to display on Search, from URL discovery to fetching and rendering. Learn what Googlebot is, what it does, if Googlebot crawls every URL it finds, why sitemaps can be helpful for your website, and much more!

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:49 - What is crawling?
1:01 - URL discovery
2:09 - What is Googlebot?
3:54 - What is fetching and rendering?
5:15 - Sitemaps (helpful website tools)
6:17 - Wrap up

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Speaker: Gary Illyes
Products Mentioned: Search Relations