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What is Crawl Budget?
Crawl budget is the number of pages a search engine will crawl on a website within a given timeframe, determined by site authority and server health.
Large sites can exhaust crawl budget on low-value pages (faceted URLs, duplicates, thin content), leaving important pages uncrawled. Small sites rarely hit crawl-budget limits.
Optimizing crawl budget means blocking low-value URLs in robots.txt, fixing redirect chains, removing duplicate content, and maintaining a clean sitemap so crawlers spend budget on pages that matter.
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