Search Engine Optimization

Crawl rate limit: The crawl rate can go up and down based on a couple of factors: UP: If the site responds really quickly for a while, the limit goes up, meaning more connections can be used to crawl. Down: If the site slows down or responds with server errors, the limit goes down and Googlebot crawls less. Crawl demand: The two factors that play a significant role in determining crawl demand are: Popularity: URLs that are more popular on the Internet tend to be crawled more often to keep them fresher in Google index. Staleness: our systems attempt to prevent URLs from becoming stale in the index. Factors affecting crawl budget: According to Google analysis, having many low-value-add URLs can negatively affect a site's crawling and indexing. Faceted navigation and session identifiers On-site duplicate content Soft error pages Hacked pages Infinite spaces and proxies Low quality and spam content Source: https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2017/01/what-crawl-budget-means-for-go...

We have affected and injected many low value (Spam links injection) URLs by "Japanese keyword hack" malware on my company WordPress website. It is negatively affected our website's crawling and indexing. Example: Screenshot   Solution: After the hack has been fixed, we asked Google to re-crawl our website URLs by the following crawl request methods.  Inspect the URL using the "URL Inspection tool" and requested indexing. XML sitemap: Resubmitted in Google - https://example.com/sitemap_index.xml Inserted the following lines in our website robots.txt file - https://example.com/robots.txt. Sitemap: https://example.com/post-sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://example.com/page-sitemap.xml