Why Crawlability and Indexability Are Two Separate Search Hurdles
Understanding the Two Stages of Search Discovery When a search engine finds a page on your site, it goes through two distinct phases before that page can appear in results. The first is crawlability, can the search engine's bot actually reach the URL and download its content. The second is indexability, once the bot has the page, can it determine that the page should be stored in its index and shown to users. These are not the same process, and confusing them leads to waste