Our crawl budget is completely maxed out on millions of useless faceted navigation pages, what emergency steps can our developer take this afternoon?
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Fan-out diagram
The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.
SEED QUERY
Our crawl budget is completely maxed out on millions of useless faceted navigation pages, what emergency steps can our developer take this afternoon?
1 real search · 1 real-search pass
Google Search Central faceted navigation crawl budget robots.txt canonical noindex official guidanceGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDInstruction
Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.
Query classes
Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.
ChatGPT real searches (1)
Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 1 of 1 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.
Searches and sources
ChatGPT1 real searches · gpt-6
Google Search Central faceted navigation crawl budget robots.txt canonical noindex official guidance Google ↗
- Managing crawling of faceted navigation URLs | Google Crawling Infrastructure | Crawling infrastructure | Google for Developers · site-6b6799fc73d1.proxynsfw.com
- Crawl Budget Management | Google Crawling Infrastructure | Crawling infrastructure | Google for Developers · developers.google.cn
- Technical SEO Techniques and Strategies | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google for Developers · developers.google.com
- Troubleshoot Google Search Crawling Errors | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google for Developers · developers.google.cn
- Robots.txt Introduction and Guide | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google for Developers · developers.google.com
- Block Search Indexing with noindex | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google for Developers · developers.google.cn
- Google's faceted navigation guidance · developers.google.com
- Google's crawl budget documentation · developers.google.com
- Google Search Console · search.google.com