Crawling is a process associated with the actions of Bots. Search engine bots or scrapers will generally 'Crawl' a website to obtain data.

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Do I need robots.txt?

I want to allow all bots to crawl everything, do I need to create a robots.txt? If the file is missing will it have a negative influence on some crawlers? If I need to create it, what should it look ...
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Why isnt google crawling on my blog? [duplicate]

I have a blog.I made it on August,2010,so it has been a while but I am unable to make Google crawl on my site.I have requested Google to crawl but I still there is no response.Any reasons to note why ...
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Status of Crawlable Ajax?

I saw that Google had a nice proposal/standard for making Ajax applications crawlable, via #! (hash bang). http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/10/proposal-for-making-ajax-crawlable.html ...
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How does Google find a domain with no links to it?

I recently registered a new domain, pointed it to my existing server, and set up a minimal page just saying "test" and nothing else. I just discovered tonight that the page is already indexed in ...