Different names of robots

Crawler, Spider & search engine bot are the other names that used for Robots in SEO.
Google Bot is the name for Google search engine crawler, Yahoo Slurp! for Yahoo and MSN Bot for MSN search engine.
 
Crawler is one name of a robot. It visits websites, reads their pages and other information to create entries for a search engine index. Another robot name is a Spider. A spider is a bot that browses many sites in an automated, and consistent manner. There are also web crawlers that keeps a copy of visited pages for processing , and also indexes these pages to make the search smaller.
 
I think this is the inherent flaw with SEO. It caters to robots, all kinds of robots, with all kinds of names. So the question you should be asking yourself is whether your site is for robots or for human beings. Myself, I work on the basis of publishing content for human visitors because as far as I can remember, it's the human visitors who buy things and helps you to make money with your site.
 
You should also keep in mind that that the bots aren't always transparent, and some times certain analytics packages you are using might mistake them for real visitors, which will throw off your metrics and conversion rates.
 
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