GEO & AI Search Glossary
Crawl Budget
Crawl budget is the number of URLs a search engine will crawl on your site within a period — a finite resource that large or messy sites can exhaust on worthless URLs.
Faceted navigation, parameters, duplicates and soft-404s burn budget, delaying discovery of pages that matter. Symptoms show in Search Console as 'Discovered — currently not crawled'.
Fixes are architectural: canonical discipline, robots rules for infinite spaces, clean sitemaps, fast responses and internal links that concentrate signals on canonical URLs.
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