No index and Crawl Budget
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Hello,
If we noindex pages, will it improve crawl budget ?
For example pages like these -
https://x-z.com/2012/10/
https://x-y.com/2012/06/
https://x-y.com/2013/03/
https://x-y.com/2019/10/
https://x-y.com/2019/08/Should we delete/redirect such pages ?
Thanks
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Hi Nigel,
We don;t have a large site, so this won't be a problem as you pointed out.
However, we don't have relevant content as of now. That's why i asked about deleting such type of pages.
Thanks
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Hi John
If the pages are old and have had no useful visits then it would make sense to forward them to more relevant content. This would be standard SEO practice anyway. However, unless you have 1000's of pages then crawling and indexing your site really isn't a problem. If you had a very large site with frequently updated pages then it could be a problem. You can change the crawl rate but if it is 'calculated as optimal' then you needn't bother worrying. read more here...
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/48620?hl=en
Regards
Nigel
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