Crawl Budget Is Inventory Discipline
Identify crawl budget waste by separating valuable URL inventory from low-value crawl traps.
Crawl budget is mostly about inventory quality. Know when it matters Small sites usually do not need a crawl-budget project. Large, frequently changing, or heavily faceted sites do. The warning signs are delayed discovery of important pages, heavy crawling of duplicate patterns, soft 404s, long redirect chains, and wasteful filter combinations. Measure by pattern Individual URLs are too noisy. Group by pattern: /search?sort=, /category?color=, pagination beyond inventory, expired listings, redirected legacy paths, and canonical product URLs. Pattern grouping shows where a single template fix can reduce thousands of low-value requests. Improve the inventory Keep sitemaps current, use canonical URLs, remove…
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