Bot (Web Bot)

A bot, or web crawler, is an automated software application that runs automated tasks over the internet at a massive scale. In SEO, the most critical bots are search engine spiders like Googlebot, which continuously discover, crawl, and index new web pages. Without bots, search engines could not function. A core component of technical SEO is optimizing your site’s architecture, robots.txt file, and crawl budget to ensure that these bots can efficiently process your most valuable pages. If your site blocks or confuses Googlebot, you are invisible to the market, regardless of how good your content is.

Bot Simplified

A bot is an automated computer program used by Google to browse the internet. These bots constantly “crawl” from website to website, reading content and saving it to Google’s massive database so it can be shown in search results.