What is a Spider?

[affortableseo]

Spiders are crawlers which read the site and help to put site in search pages.

[schumannrober]

Originally Posted by vksheilds

Spider is a program that crawl your site. Its also know as crawler, indexer and spider. Google spider name Googlebot for more information about how they work you can visit here support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=182072

Thanks for the informative source, I will read it to know about spider.

[lillianabe]

A spider is one type of program which regularly visits websites and reads their pages and collects some information about webpage in order and creates entry for search engine index. It also known as “crawler” or “bot”. It is crawl entire site or specific page that have been submitted by their owners as new or updated.

[jesicawillss]

Thanks VK for the nice information. Can any expert tell me that which things are indexing by Google fast from the website.

[lillianabe]

A spider is one type of program which regularly visits websites and reads their pages and collects some information about webpage in order and creates entry for search engine index. It also known as “crawler” or “bot”. It is crawl entire site or specific page that have been submitted by their owners as new or updated.

[talks44]

It's a program which researches on your site before it's posted on search engine.

[jmark1107]

Spiders are used to feed pages to search engines. It's called a spider because it crawls over the Web.