What is Crawl Budget?

The limited resources Google allocates to crawling a website. Sitemaps help conserve crawl budget, and heavy JavaScript usage consumes more of it, slowing indexing.

From SEO and Web Design: How to Build a Website That Ranks Ep. 599

The amount of crawling Google allocates to a site. Using consistent header hierarchy and adding new content encourages Google to return and index more pages, growing the crawl budget over time.

From Ranking Locally: Your Guide to GMB & SEO (Unknown Secrets Revealed!) Ep. 580

The amount of crawling a search engine allocates to a site. The exact budget is unknown, but site owners can send signals via sitemaps and Search Console to suggest which pages to prioritize.

From Are SEO Plugins even Helpful? Ep. 583

The number of pages Google will find and process on a site based on that site's authority, making it critical to ensure the most valuable pages are prioritized for crawling.

From Episode 509: Enterprise Ecommerce Sites Can Win Big With an SEO Strategy by Gary Shuey #509

The amount of a website that search engines and generative engines actually crawl and process; wasted crawl budget on low-value pages reduces how much of a site is seen and indexed.

From Entity SEO & AI Search: Winning in the New Search Landscape with Zach Chahalis

The capacity Google Bot and other crawlers allocate to indexing a site; duplicate content and other technical issues reduce how frequently a site gets crawled.

From 8 Quick Checks for Duplicate Content by Stephanie LeVonne #338