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What is Crawl budget?
Crawl budget is the number of pages Googlebot is willing and able to crawl on a site in a given period. It depends on how fast and stable the server is and how much demand Google sees for the site's pages. Google says crawl budget is mainly a concern for very large or fast-changing sites; a business site with a few hundred pages is rarely limited by it. Where it does matter, the usual waste is thousands of near-identical addresses from filters, search results pages, calendars or session codes, which use up crawling on pages nobody should land on.
What does Crawl budget mean for a business in Pakistan?
For most Islamabad business websites, crawl budget is not the problem, and an agency that leads with it is probably padding the report. It becomes real for large Pakistani e-commerce stores and classifieds sites, where filter combinations can generate far more addresses than there are products, and for sites on slow shared hosting that times out under crawling.
A worked example
An electronics store with 3,000 products has filters for brand, price, colour and rating. Combined, they produce more than 200,000 crawlable addresses. Search Console shows Googlebot spending most of its visits on filter pages while new products wait weeks to be indexed. Blocking filter parameters in robots.txt and keeping only key category filters crawlable redirects that attention.
Terms that go with this one
These come up in the same conversations and are worth reading together.
- CrawlingcrawlingCrawling is a search engine's bot fetching your pages by following links — the same way a person clicks around a site, but automated and far faster.…
- Faceted navigationfiltersFaceted navigation is the set of filters on a category page that let shoppers narrow products by attributes such as size, colour, brand, price range…
- Robots.txtrobots fileRobots.txt is a plain text file at the root of a website that tells crawlers which parts of the site they may and may not request. It works by naming…
- IndexingindexingIndexing is Google storing a copy of your page so it can be shown in results. It is the step after crawling: a bot visits the page, then Google…
- Google Search Consolesearch consoleGoogle Search Console is Google's free tool for website owners. It shows which search queries your pages appeared for, how many impressions and…
Crawl budget — quick answers
What does Crawl budget mean?
Crawl budget is the number of pages Googlebot is willing and able to crawl on a site in a given period. It depends on how fast and stable the server is and how much demand Google sees for the site's pages.
Crawl budget ko Urdu mein kya kehte hain?
کرال بجٹ — though in practice almost everyone in Pakistan says "crawl budget". For most Islamabad business websites, crawl budget is not the problem, and an agency that leads with it is probably padding the report.
Why does Crawl budget matter for a business in Pakistan?
For most Islamabad business websites, crawl budget is not the problem, and an agency that leads with it is probably padding the report. It becomes real for large Pakistani e-commerce stores and classifieds sites, where filter combinations can generate far more addresses than there are products, and for sites on slow shared hosting that times out under crawling.
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