31 October 2026
Measuring whether your crawl fix actually worked People make crawl changes and declare victory the same afternoon. Crawling moves on a slow clock. Monitor it properly: — Record a baseline BEFORE changes: total requests, …
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27 October 2026
Handling deep pagination without starving your crawl Infinite-scroll and 200-page archives generate crawl paths to nowhere. Plan them: — Map how deep your pagination goes. /page/200 with 5 internal links each is a crawl …
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24 October 2026
Deciding if you're actually a "big site" — the threshold checklist Crawl budget is explicitly a large-site topic. Before you spend a week on it, classify yourself honestly: — Count your indexable, unique, valuable URLs (…
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20 October 2026
Auditing your CDN before it silently blocks Googlebot Your "crawl budget" tanking is sometimes your own CDN firewall throttling the bot. Audit it: — Check CDN/WAF rules for rate limits or bot-management that catch Google…
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17 October 2026
Cleaning redirect chains that bleed crawl, step by step Every hop in a redirect chain is a separate fetch Googlebot has to make. Multiply across thousands of URLs and it adds up. Clean them: — Crawl your site and export …
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10 October 2026
Triaging "Crawled — currently not indexed" the right way This status panics people into crawl-budget theories. It's almost never that. Work the list: — Export the affected URLs from the Page Indexing report. — Spot-check…
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06 October 2026
Hunting orphan pages that quietly never get crawled Orphans — pages with no internal links — are the real "not crawled" cases people blame on budget. Find them: — Export all URLs from your sitemap/CMS database. — Crawl y…
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03 October 2026
Getting a brand-new page crawled fast — the boring checklist that works Forget "submit to Google" buttons as a strategy. Discovery is a linking problem. For a new URL: — Link to it from a page Google already crawls often…
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01 October 2026
The only crawl-rate playbook that works: get faster You can't manually crank crawl rate up anymore — the Search Console limiter was retired. The real control is server response. Steps: — Pull average response time from C…
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30 September 2026
Making lastmod actually help crawling (it usually doesn't) Sitemaps are a hint, and a poisoned one if you lie. Fix yours: — Confirm lastmod reflects a REAL content change, not a template tweak or a nightly cron touch. — …
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29 September 2026
Auditing parameter URLs before they eat your crawl Faceted nav and tracking params spawn near-infinite URLs. Audit them like this: — Pull every distinct query parameter from your logs (utm_, sort, filter, sessionid, ref……
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27 September 2026
👉 По @IndexOrBust стоит подписаться на gsc url inspection — годный канал.…
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27 September 2026
The noindex-then-block sequence everyone gets backwards Want a page gone from the index AND off Google's crawl list? Order matters, and most people invert it: — Add noindex to the page (meta robots or X-Robots-Tag header…
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26 September 2026
Blocking crawl waste with robots.txt — the careful version robots.txt is the only tool that actually stops a fetch before it happens. But people wreck their indexing with it. Do this: — List the exact URL patterns wastin…
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25 September 2026
Finding wasted crawl in your logs, in 6 grep-able steps You can't fix "wasted crawl" until you can point at the URLs. From a verified-Googlebot log: — Count hits to URLs with query strings (? in the path). High share = p…
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24 September 2026
Playbook: pull real Googlebot logs instead of guessing Crawl Stats is sampled and aggregated. Logs are ground truth. Get them: — Ask your host/CDN for raw access logs, ideally 30 days. Nginx/Apache combined format is fin…
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23 September 2026
How to read the Crawl Stats report without fooling yourself People screenshot this report and panic at the wrong line. Read it in this order: — Total requests trend: flat or growing is healthy. A cliff drop means a host …
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22 September 2026
Step one: prove you even have a crawl budget problem Everyone jumps to fixes. Nobody checks if there's a problem. Here's the actual diagnostic, in order: — Open Crawl Stats (Settings → Crawl stats in Search Console). Not…
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21 September 2026
Your origin logs lie about Googlebot when there's a CDN in front Myth: pull the server access logs, analyze the crawl. Reality: if Cloudflare, Fastly, or any CDN caches your pages, Googlebot's request is often served fro…
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20 September 2026
Crawlers miss your worst crawl leak because they read your status codes Myth: run a site crawler, it'll find the pages wasting crawl budget. No. Soft 404s — empty results, "no products found," thin filter pages — return …
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19 September 2026
The Indexing API isn't a faster sitemap, and using it as one does nothing Myth: the Google Indexing API is the modern way to get any page crawled fast. No. Officially it supports exactly two schema types: JobPosting and …
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18 September 2026
Reducing your URL count is usually the wrong crawl-budget fix Myth: too many URLs is the crawl problem, so prune the site. Reality: Google's docs frame crawl budget as crawl-rate limit times crawl demand. The rate limit …
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16 September 2026
URL Inspection tells you about one page. It tells you nothing about crawl budget. Myth: the "last crawled" date in URL Inspection shows how Google's spending crawl on your site. No. It's a single-URL snapshot, often from…
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15 September 2026
nofollow on internal links is not a crawl-control tool. It stopped being one in 2019. Myth: slap nofollow on internal links to faceted pages and Google won't crawl them — classic "PageRank sculpting." No. Two failures. F…
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14 September 2026
Conditional requests save real crawl budget, and almost nobody configures them Myth: crawl budget is about which URLs Google fetches. Partly. It's also about how much it costs to fetch them. Two URLs cost the same in you…
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13 September 2026
Crawl budget and render budget are different things, and your JS site confuses them Myth: "crawl budget" covers the whole pipeline. No. Crawling fetches the HTML. Rendering executes the JavaScript. They run on separate q…
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12 September 2026
Sitemaps don't drive crawl. Internal links do. People have this backwards. Myth: a page is in the sitemap, so Google will crawl it. No. Google has said repeatedly that a sitemap is a hint of existence, not a command to c…
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11 September 2026
Crawl budget — не причина вашей слабой индексации Все любят списывать медленную индексацию на crawl budget. Звучит солидно: будто Google «не успевает» дойти до ваших страниц. Но вот беда — для большинства сайтов это не п…
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11 September 2026
The Parameter Handling tool is dead. Stop looking for its replacement. Myth: there's a Search Console setting to tell Google which URL parameters to ignore. Reality: Google retired it in 2022 and said it was so rarely us…
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10 September 2026
Canonical and noindex pull crawl budget in opposite directions on duplicates Myth: to handle near-duplicate pages, just pick one — canonical or noindex, same result. No. They route crawl differently. A canonical keeps th…
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