'crawling' tag synonyms

Question

There are currently separate tags for crawling and web-crawlers and site-crawler.

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Since they are essentially the same thing, should these tags be merged into one? Should synonyms be made?

I performed the synonym merge. "crawling" and "site-crawler" are now synonyms of "web-crawlers". — Stephen Ostermiller, Jul 11, 2013 at 18:01

Stephen Ostermiller · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-10 14:05:33Z

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They seem similar enough to be merged to me.

It looks like web-crawlers already has crawler, crawlers, and web-crawler as synonyms. It would probably make the best canonical tag for crawling and site-crawler as well.

answered Jul 10, 2013 at 10:36

Stephen OstermillerMod

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I would keep Googlebot separate but agree that the pothers should be merged. Thoughts?
– John Conde Mod
Jul 10, 2013 at 11:33
googlebot and crawl-errors (from the screenshot) are certainly separate, but the proposal that crawling, web-crawlers and site-crawler should be merged is fine.
– Stephen Ostermiller Mod
Jul 10, 2013 at 14:02
Yeah, I wasn't referring to those two, just the three Stephen had merged.
– Andrew Lott
Jul 11, 2013 at 20:39

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