What is Crawl Budget?
Crawl budget is the number of pages Googlebot will crawl on your website within a given time period. For large sites (10,000+ pages), optimizing crawl budget ensures important pages get indexed.
Why Crawl Budget Matters
For most small-to-medium sites, crawl budget isn't a concern. But as your site grows (especially with a 250+ page glossary), ensuring Google crawls revenue-generating pages first becomes important.
How to Optimize Crawl Budget
- Block unimportant pages via robots.txt
- Fix broken links and redirect chains
- Use XML sitemaps to prioritize important pages
- Remove duplicate and thin content
How FlowStrata Manages Crawl Budget
FlowStrata uses an optimized robots.txt and XML sitemap to guide search engine crawlers to our most important pages, service pages, glossary terms, and case studies, while preventing crawl waste on utility pages.