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 chang…
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 li…
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, uni…
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-manageme…
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 y…
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 …
