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Improving your website’s crawl budget involves optimizing some aspects of your site to ensure search engines can efficiently crawl and index your content. Below are some strategies that can help:
1. Prune Low-Quality Pages:
If your site has a lot of low-quality or thin-content pages, consider either improving them or removing them entirely. This can help ensure that Googlebot isn’t wasting time crawling these pages when it could be focusing on your higher-quality content.
2. Manage Duplicate Content:
Having lots of duplicate content on your site can save your crawl budget, as Googlebot could crawl multiple versions of the same page. To manage this, ensure that every page on your site has a unique canonical URL.
3. Optimize Your Site’s Load Time:
A faster website helps the crawlers to access more pages in less time. Ensure that your website is well-optimized for speed. You can use Google’s PageSpeed Insights tool to identify areas for improvement.
4. Leverage the Robots.txt File:
You can use the robots.txt file to guide search engine bots away from pages that aren’t important or necessary to index. However, use this cautiously, as incorrect usage could prevent essential pages from being indexed.
5. Improve Internal Linking:
Ensure every page on your site can be reached by internal links. Orphan pages (pages that can’t be reached by following internal links) are bad for your crawl budget, as they can be more challenging for Googlebot to find.
6. Correctly Use Redirects:
If you’re using redirects, ensure they’re 301 (permanent) rather than 302 (temporary). Additionally, avoid redirect chains, as these can consume more of your crawl budget.
7. Keep Your XML Sitemap Updated:
An updated sitemap helps search engines understand the structure of your site and can guide them to your most important pages. Ensure that your sitemap is updated whenever you add new content.
8. Use Google Search Console:
You can see which pages Googlebot cannot crawl in Google Search Console and why. You can also see a report of your site’s crawl stats to understand how Googlebot interacts with your site.
Large site owner’s guide to managing your crawl budget:
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/large-site-managing-crawl-budget
Remember, improving your crawl budget is about making it as easy and efficient as possible for search engine bots to crawl and index your site’s content. This often involves a combination of technical SEO, content optimization, and site structure improvements.
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None of the ‘requests’ in the Firefox console tool screenshot you shared is related to Rank Math.
We hope that helps, and please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.
