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Crawl budget

The crawl capacity a search engine allocates to a site over time. Prioritize useful, crawlable URLs; do not treat crawl budget as a ranking factor or a problem for every small site.

The crawl capacity a search engine allocates to a site over time. Prioritize useful, crawlable URLs; do not treat crawl budget as a ranking factor or a problem for every small site.

Example and use

Example: a filter creates thousands of crawlable URL variants. Review whether those URLs help users before changing crawl rules.

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Guide · 10 min

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Guide · 9 min

Demand fell or the site lost: reconciling traffic with Wordstat

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