Cut crawl budget waste

Prompt that clusters crawl-budget waste and protects money pages. Paste it into an AI tool of your choice, which then cuts crawl budget waste.

Topic: SEO & website copy
Type: Prompt
Level: Intermediate
Time: about 15 min

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| Pattern | Hits | Value | | /color=* facets | 41 % | low | | /tag/* thin | 22 % | low | | /product/* | 9 % | high | Fix: robots facets, noindex thin tags Protect: product + category hubs Re-check crawl share in 14 days

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SiteWhat site?

WasteWhat burns crawl?

PriorityWhat must stay crawled?

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Help me cut crawl budget waste on my site.
Site: [Site]
Waste: [Waste]
Priority: [Priority]
Steps: 1. Read crawl logs or a crawl sample for hits vs value. 2. Cluster wasteful patterns: thin, duplicate, infinite params, soft traps. 3. Map fixes: robots, noindex, canonical, parameter handling, internal links. 4. Protect money and hub pages in the internal graph. 5. Set a re-check window after changes. 6. Write a short before/after checklist.
Output: waste clusters, fix map, protected URLs and re-check plan.

Take particular care to cut low-value URL patterns so money pages keep crawl share.

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Copy the finished prompt into an AI tool of your choice.
Paste crawl-log aggregates or URL pattern counts, without tracking secrets.

Why does this work?

If bots spend most hits on thin variants, your money pages age in the index. Cut the waste patterns first.

Tips

Fix internal links to priority URLs; robots alone cannot repair a bad graph.

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