URL discovery
Learning that an address exists through links, sitemaps, submissions, feeds, redirects, or prior records.
What URL discovery means
Discovery is earlier than crawling and indexing.
Terms this definition uses
Related terms in Crawling and indexing
How a crawler discovers, schedules, fetches and selects pages, and why a fetched page is not an indexed one.
Crawler identity · Product token · Identification string · Crawl frontier · Crawl queue · Crawl scheduler · Seed URL · Link extraction · Recrawl interval · Crawl frequency · Host politeness · Crawl rate · Crawl-delay · Robots group merging · Longest-match rule · Wildcard rule · End-anchor rule · Robots cache · Robots parse error · Robots redirect · Robots unavailable · Sitemap · Sitemap URL set · Sitemap lastmod · Sitemap hreflang · Image sitemap · Video sitemap · News sitemap · Canonical cluster · Duplicate cluster · Index selection · Crawl demand · Rendering queue · Rendered HTML · Indexing pipeline · Index freshness · Index lag · Deindexing · Removal request · URL inspection · Crawl anomaly · Bot spoofing · Shared IP range · Web Bot Auth
Questions about URL discovery
What is URL discovery?
Learning that an address exists through links, sitemaps, submissions, feeds, redirects, or prior records.
Which area of the glossary does URL discovery belong to?
Crawling and indexing: How a crawler discovers, schedules, fetches and selects pages, and why a fetched page is not an indexed one.
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