Technical Definition
Crawl budget is the number of pages Googlebot will crawl on your site within a given timeframe. It's determined by crawl rate limit (server capacity) and crawl demand (site importance and freshness). Large sites with millions of pages need to optimize crawl budget to ensure important pages are crawled frequently. Factors include site speed, duplicate content, and URL parameters.
Simple Explanation (ELI13)
Crawl budget is like how much time Google's robot is willing to spend on your website. If you have a small site, this doesn't matter much. But if you have thousands of pages, you want Google spending time on your important pages, not wasting time on junk pages. It's about making sure Google sees what matters most.
Related Terms
Crawling, Googlebot, Log File Analysis, Server Response
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