{"id":20006,"date":"2022-11-30T21:15:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T21:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/30\/noindexed-pages-do-not-impact-crawl-budget\/"},"modified":"2022-11-30T21:15:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T21:15:14","slug":"noindexed-pages-do-not-impact-crawl-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/30\/noindexed-pages-do-not-impact-crawl-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Noindexed Pages Do Not Impact Crawl Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Google\u2019s Search Relations team confirms that noindexed pages don\u2019t adversely impact a website\u2019s crawl budget, no matter how many a site has.<\/p>\n

This topic is addressed not once but thrice during the November 2022 edition of Google\u2019s SEO office-hours Q&A session.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

From Mueller\u2019s and Illyes\u2019 responses, we learn there\u2019s no such thing as \u201ctoo many\u201d indexed pages. Further, unless your website has over a million pages, there\u2019s no need to worry about crawl budget.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a quick recap of each question and answer.<\/p>\n

Question 1: Excessive Indexed Pages<\/h2>\n

At the 8:23 mark in Google\u2019s November 2022 office-hours, Illyes addresses a question asking if an \u201cexcessive\u201d number of indexed pages is an issue for discovery or indexed.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNoindex 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\u2019t carry any unintended effects when it comes to crawling and indexing. For example, having many pages with noindex will not influence how Google crawls and indexes your site.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Question 2: Ratio Of Indexed\/Noindexed Pages<\/h2>\n

The following question comes up at the 10:22 mark:<\/p>\n

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\u201cShould we keep an eye on the ratio between indexed and non-indexed pages in Search Console in order to better recognize possibly wasted crawl budget on non-indexed pages?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Mueller debunks that websites should attempt to balance their indexed and nonindexed pages.<\/p>\n

To that end, crawl budget is a factor that few sites need to think about; Mueller says:<\/p>\n

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\u201cNo, there is no magic ratio to watch out for. Also, for a site that\u2019s not gigantic, with less than a million pages, perhaps, you really don\u2019t need to worry about the crawl budget of your website. It\u2019s fine to remove unnecessary internal links, but for small to medium-sized sites, that\u2019s more of a site hygiene topic than an SEO one.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Question 3: Noindexed Pages Linked From Spammy Sites<\/h2>\n

At the 11:26 mark, a question comes up about no indexed pages that\u2019s slightly different from the previous two.<\/p>\n

The question reads:<\/p>\n

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\u201cA lot of SEOs are complaining about having millions of URLs flagged as excluded by noindex in Google Search Console. All to nonsense internal search pages linked from spammy sites. Is this a problem for crawl budget?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ilyes reiterates the earlier point about noindex being a tool for sites to use as needed.<\/p>\n

Assuming the pages are intentionally noindexed, there\u2019s no need to worry about Search Console flagging them. It doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re doing anything wrong.<\/p>\n

Illyes states:<\/p>\n

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\u201cNoindex is there to help you keep things out of the index, and it doesn\u2019t come with unintended negative effects, as we said previously. If you want to ensure that those pages or their URLs, more specifically, don\u2019t end up in Google\u2019s index, continue using noindex and don\u2019t worry about crawl budget.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Source<\/strong>: Google<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n