AI Summary What is crawlability? Crawlability is the measure of how effectively search engine bots can discover, access, and process the pages on your website. It covers the entire technical foundation that determines whether Googlebot can find your URLs, fetch their content, and pass that content to the indexing system for evaluation. When crawlability is…
AI Summary What is crawl budget? Crawl budget is the number of pages Googlebot will crawl on your site within a given time period. It is determined by two factors: crawl rate limit, which is how fast Google can crawl without overloading your server, and crawl demand, which is how much Google wants to crawl…
AI Summary What are orphan pages? An orphan page is a published page on your website that has zero inbound internal links. No other page on your site links to it. Googlebot discovers pages by following links, so a page with no inbound links is a page the crawler cannot find through normal crawling. The…
AI Summary What are crawl errors? Crawl errors are failures that occur when Googlebot attempts to access a page on your site and cannot retrieve it successfully. They include server errors (5xx), page not found errors (404), redirect errors, soft 404s, blocked resources, and DNS failures. Each error type has a different cause, a different…
AI Summary What are crawlability problems? Crawlability problems are any technical issues that prevent search engine bots from discovering, accessing, or processing pages on your website. They include misconfigured robots.txt files, broken internal links, slow server response times, redirect chains, orphan pages, JavaScript rendering failures, and indexing directive errors. These problems are silent because they…