Crawl Budget: SEO Mythbusting



In the second episode of SEO Mythbusting season 2, Martin Splitt (Developer Advocate, Google) and Alexis Sanders (Senior Account Manager, Merkle) discuss the most common SEO questions and myths around crawl budget.

Specific timestamped topics discussed in this episode:
Why is crawl budget an interesting topic to discuss (0:00)
What is crawl budget? (1:15)
What is crawl rate, and what is crawl demand? (1:47)
How does Googlebot make its crawl rate and crawl demand decisions? (2:44)
ETags, HTTP headers, last modified dates, and similar (3:43)
What size of sites should worry about crawl budget? (4:35)
Server setup vs crawl budget (5:00)
Crawl frequency vs quality of content (6:18)
What to expect to see in one’s log files if Google is testing one’s server? (7:45)
Tips on how to get your site crawled accurately during a site migration (8:18)
Crawl budget and the different levels of one’s site’s infrastructure (9:40)
Does crawl budget affect rendering as well? (10:37)
Caching of resources and crawl budget (11:46)
Crawl budget and specific industries such as publishing (13:34)
What can be – generally speaking – recommended to help Googlebot out when crawling one’s site? (15:03)
What are the usual pitfalls people get into with crawl budget? (16:52)
Can one tell Googlebot to crawl one’s site more? (17:40)

Documentation mentioned in this episode:
What Crawl Budget means for Googlebot → https://goo.gle/3iIJHp2
How to move your content to a new location → https://goo.gle/3iKf2HS
Reduce the Googlebot crawl rate → https://goo.gle/38LfMb5

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30 thoughts on “Crawl Budget: SEO Mythbusting”

  1. What a shame I did not watch this earlier (thankfully this is due to being very busy 🙂
    This is one of the most valuable contents I've learned from for years.
    Content is absolutely significant plus format is plain enough to share with customers and project portfolio stakeholders (though highly technical background).
    Thanks to all those involved in this production.

  2. Interesting to see Martin actually mentioned it quite a few times in the video that Google won't choose to index pages that are not high-quality enough. This basically confirms what some of the SEOs like Marie Haynes have specticulated few months back as of why many people have reported that their content wouldn't get indexed

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