What is difference between spiders, crawlers and robots?

**Peter97** · 07-16-2016, 06:44 AM

Hello friends,

I am so confused about spiders, crawlers and robots so can anyone suggest me what is difference between spiders, crawlers and robots?

**Fli** · 07-17-2016, 10:26 AM

i think they are one. Many people use many words to express one thing. Robots is more general and used also in other things beside SEO.

**Peter97** · 10-31-2017, 06:02 AM

I think its similar

**Barbara** · 11-08-2017, 05:54 AM

These all terms are same. The crawlers are also known as spiders or bots/robots. the main purpose of them is to visit website and send information to their respective parent websites.

**Monga** · 11-08-2017, 07:02 AM

Spider - The browsers are like a program and to download the webpage.

Crawler – The program is automatically to follow the links are webpage.

Robots - It had automated computer program can visit websites. It will guided by search engine algorithms It can combine the tasks of crawler & spider helpful of the indexing the web pages and through the search engines.