Search engine giant Google was seen publishing a recent podcast that went on to discuss which factors are considered for content indexing. Similarly, it also highlighted insights on Crawl Budget.
So, what exactly influences search engines to index content? Well, you’ll be surprised to learn that there is a whole list of factors.
Thanks to Gary and Martin Splitt, we’ve got a better overview of Google’s take on the interesting subject. After all, indexing on the web isn’t as simple as you may have thought.
First things first, let’s look at Crawl Budgets and what the concept means. This is something that came outside the Google realm and was designed by the whole search community.
There was literally nothing present in Google that would correspond to this idea. Hence, when people first started talking about it, well, several metrics became involved and not just a single crawl budget.
Those in Google started talking about it and what they felt would best represent the idea. Google was forced to work with several teams to come up with metrics that would best map out the concept.
And that’s when it was revealed that the Crawl Budget had to do with practical considerations. Common examples include the number of URLs the search engine allowed without bombarding the server.
So, in the end, it turned out to be the number of URLs that Googlebot could be told to crawl.
But the debate didn’t end there. A lot of talks went into what other considerations get involved for crawling to...
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