What is the difference between indexed and crawling?

Crawling:
When Google came to your website to track all the link in your website and collect detail about each page like Title, content, images and other page links. This process called crawling.

Indexing:
After crawling has been done, adding the web pages into Google search this process is called indexing.
 
Crawling is the process or reading through your webpage source by search engine spiders. They provide a cache certificate after a successful crawl. Indexing is updating the cached webpages in search engine database. Indexed webpages are now ready for search engine rankings.
 
In layman's terms, indexing is the process of adding web pages into Google search. Depending upon which meta tag you used (index or NO-index), Google will crawl and index your pages. A no-index tag means that that page will not be added to the web search's index. By default, every WordPress post and page is indexed.
 
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