Sitemap lastmod Is Always Today and Google Stopped Trusting It
Every URL in your sitemap reports today's `lastmod`. Googlebot crawl rate falls instead of rising, because Google now ignores the field as unreliable.
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Articles tagged with #Crawl budget
Redirect Map Grew to Thousands of Entries and Slows Builds
Your _redirects file is 3,000 lines. Builds are slower, crawlers chase chains, and nobody knows which rules are still needed. How to audit, collapse, and prune.
Google Crawls My Homepage But Never the Article Pages
Search Console shows the homepage gets crawled regularly but inner article pages stay at "Discovered — currently not indexed" or are never crawled.
Googlebot Crawl Spikes But Impressions Stay Flat
Crawl Stats show Googlebot fetching hundreds of URLs per day, but the Performance report stays at the same flat impression line. Why crawling does not equal traffic.
Large Content Site Indexing Slowly
Site has thousands of pages but only a fraction get indexed. Why this happens and what actually moves the needle.