Search engine spiders or crawlers are all the same names for common software which indexes content on the web. A search spider is basically a software program that is frequently used by search engines like Google to index important pages on the Internet for retrieval by their users.
The basic task of these crawlers is to index content and follow all the links it comes across to gather even more content.
While it might apparently seem to be difficult, it’s not. I highly recommend using a “robots.txt” for your website. It is through this file that instructs the spiders what they can and, more importantly, what they can’t index on your site.
Note: If you need a walkthrough, I have a great tutorial: Robots.txt File – No Website Should Be Without One
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