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Is Your Blog’s Crawl Budget So Low? Here’s How You Optimize
A crawling budget problem doesn’t necessarily mean a technical problem.
One budget that every SEO prefers to have unlimited: is the crawl budget.
It’s a term you see regularly on SEO blogs. The crawl budget is the amount of time and resources Google spends crawling a blog. Should you worry about this and optimize your blog according to your crawl budget? In this article, you’ll find out!
Let me start by reassuring you. Your blog doesn’t have many (more than 10,000) unique pages that change daily or more than a million pages that change regularly. Then you generally don’t need to worry about your crawl budget.
However, it’s a hot topic. SEOs often think they have problems with their crawl budget because their pages aren’t being crawled or indexed.
Crawl rate, crawl demand, and crawl budget
Crawl budget is a term coined by the SEO community. There were several definitions on the internet, which caused people to ask Google questions. For this reason, Google later adopted the term crawl budget in its own documentation. They don’t talk about a term, but about a crawl budget that consists of two parts: crawl rate and crawl demand.
