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Crawl Budget

Googlebot is wasting crawls on the wrong pages — we redirect every one

Large sites can exhaust their crawl budget on session-parameter URLs, infinite facet combinations, and thin auto-generated pages before Googlebot ever reaches their most valuable content. We stop the waste at the source.

Site health score93 / 100
Core Web VitalsPassed
Crawl efficiency91%
Indexation88%
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crawl waste eliminated on average
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more priority pages crawled per day
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duplicate URLs removed from crawl path
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days to index new high-value content
The problem we solve

Crawl waste on faceted and duplicate URLs delays indexation of money pages

A faceted navigation with 12 filter dimensions can generate millions of unique URLs, each consuming a fraction of your crawl budget. Googlebot has finite capacity per domain — pages it cannot crawl in time cannot rank. We identify every source of crawl waste, eliminate it, and reallocate those crawls to your highest-value URLs.

[ log file crawl allocation: wasted vs. revenue pages before → after ]
What's included

Everything in your crawl budget programme

Server Log Crawl Analysis

We parse raw server logs to measure exactly how Googlebot distributes its crawls across your URL space — separating revenue pages, thin pages, duplicate variants, and bot traps.

Faceted Navigation Audit

Every filter, sort, and pagination parameter is evaluated for crawl cost versus ranking value. Non-valuable combinations are blocked via robots.txt or canonical, not guessed at.

Duplicate URL Elimination

Session IDs, tracking parameters, trailing slash variants, and protocol duplicates are consolidated via canonical tags, parameter handling in Search Console, and URL normalisation at the server level.

Thin & Low-Value Page Pruning

Auto-generated pages with no search demand — empty category pages, single-product filtered views, paginated archives beyond page 3 — are noindexed or consolidated to concentrate crawl on substantive content.

XML Sitemap Hygiene

Sitemaps are cleaned to include only canonical, indexable, returning-200 URLs. Noindex pages, redirects, and soft-404s are removed so Googlebot treats your sitemap as a reliable priority signal.

Crawl Rate Monitoring

We track crawl rate, crawl demand, and Googlebot response codes week-over-week in server logs and Search Console to catch new crawl traps before they drain budget at scale.

Our methodology

From log data crawl waste audit to clean crawl allocation

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Log File Crawl Audit

We process 30-90 days of server logs, segment every Googlebot request by URL type, and quantify crawl budget allocation. This produces the first honest picture of where your crawl is actually going versus where it should go.

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Waste Elimination Roadmap

Each crawl waste source is categorised — facet trap, duplicate variant, thin page, broken internal link — and a fix is scoped: robots.txt rule, canonical, noindex, URL normalisation, or sitemap removal. Fixes ship in order of crawl-waste volume.

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Reallocation & Validation

We confirm in subsequent log data that crawl is shifting to priority pages, measure change in indexation speed for new content, and report on ranking improvements for pages that were previously under-crawled.

Proof it works

How a technical overhaul unlocked 187% more revenue

A fast-growing marketplace was leaking authority through duplicate URLs and slow templates. We re-architected crawling, halved load times, and rebuilt their internal linking.

  • 2.4× faster pages across the catalog
  • 63% more product pages indexed
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+0%organic revenue in 6 months
Service FAQ

Questions, answered

For sites under a few thousand pages with fast hosting, crawl budget is rarely a constraint. It becomes critical for sites above 50,000 pages, sites with heavy faceted navigation, or sites that publish new content frequently and need it indexed quickly.
Yes, over-blocking is a common mistake. We audit every disallow rule against its crawl-waste justification before adding it, and we never block pages that pass link equity to ranking URLs.
Server logs give the most complete picture. Without them, we use Search Console's crawl stats report and coverage data to model allocation. We always recommend log access for large-site work.
We assess each URL for non-organic traffic before blocking or noindexing it. Pages with meaningful paid search, social referral, or direct traffic are handled separately from pure crawl-waste pages.

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  • A revenue forecast for getting it right