What is the difference between indexing and ranking?

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asked Sep 12, 2017 in Google by APA (420 points)
What is the difference between indexing a website and ranking a website?

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answered Sep 12, 2017 by Shawn (99,990 points)
Indexing a website is where google's search engine bot crawls your website and lists your websites articles and website pages in it's search engine listings.

Ranking is where your website will show up in search results if your content is relevant to what the google searcher is searching for.

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