What Is Crawl Waste in SEO?
Use Cases
Used to identify and remove low-value URLs like duplicate content or filtered product pages so crawlers focus on core landing pages.
Helps SEOs manage the crawl budget by blocking unnecessary pages through robots.txt or noindex tags.
Helps site owners analyze crawl logs to detect patterns of inefficient bot behavior and reduce unnecessary crawling.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Why does crawl waste hurt SEO?
Because it diverts crawl budget from valuable content, which can delay indexing or leave key pages out of search results.
How can I detect crawl waste?
By analyzing server logs, crawl stats in Google Search Console, and identifying patterns of over-crawled low-value URLs.
What causes crawl waste?
Common causes include faceted navigation, duplicate pages, thin content, and dynamically generated URLs.
Can large sites be more prone to crawl waste?
By updating robots.txt files, applying canonical tags, using noindex directives, and consolidating duplicate content.
How do you fix crawl waste issues?
Primarily it impacts engines like Google that assign crawl budgets, but it can influence how any bot indexes your site.
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