<b>Forcing recrawls on static pages wastes the budget you're trying to save</b>

<b>Forcing recrawls on static pages wastes the budget you're trying to save</b>

Myth: keep nudging Google to recrawl your important pages so they stay fresh.

No. Google allocates crawl by observed change rate. A page that never changes gets crawled less because crawling it is pointless — Google learned it's static. That's the system working, not failing.

Here's the thing. When you fake freshness — tweak lastmod, shuffle a widget, ping for recrawl — you train Google to keep checking a page that doesn't change, spending demand that your genuinely updated pages needed.

The tradeoff: pages that truly change often should signal it honestly and get frequent crawls. Stable pages should be left alone and crawled rarely. That's correct, not neglect.

A reference page crawled monthly isn't being ignored. It's being trusted.

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