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Google’s Search Relations team confirms that noindexed pages don’t adversely impact a website’s crawl budget, no matter how many a site has.

This topic is addressed not once but thrice during the November 2022 edition of Google’s SEO office-hours Q&A session.

Google Search Advocates John Mueller and Gary Illyes take turns answering three similar questions from people concerned they have too many noindexed pages on their sites.

From Mueller’s and Illyes’ responses, we learn there’s no such thing as “too many” indexed pages. Further, unless your website has over a million pages, there’s no need to worry about crawl budget.

Here’s a quick recap of each question and answer.

Question 1: Excessive Indexed Pages

At the 8:23 mark in Google’s November 2022 office-hours, Illyes addresses a question asking if an “excessive” number of indexed pages is an issue for discovery or indexed.

Illyes says noindex is a tool to help websites keep content out of search engines. Google encourages using the noindex tag when necessary, and for that reason, there are no adverse effects associated with it.

“Noindex is a very powerful tool that search engines support to help you, this site owner, keep content out of their indexes. For this reason, it doesn’t carry any unintended effects when...



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