Crawl budget is the amount of time and attention a search engine crawler is willing to spend on your site within a given period. It influences how often your pages are crawled and how quickly changes like new content, updates, or fixes are discovered. Crawl budget is especially important for large sites with thousands of URLs, where search engines may not visit every page as frequently as you would like.
To keep crawling efficient and predictable, focus on making it easy for crawlers to reach your most important pages. Reduce wasted crawl paths caused by duplicate URLs, endless faceted filters, thin pages, or broken links that lead to errors. A clean internal linking structure, an accurate XML sitemap, fast server responses, and correct status codes all help search engines spend their crawl effort on pages that actually matter. When your site is organized and technically reliable, crawlers can find and refresh your content more consistently.
