Lesson 2 of 1713 minIntermediate
Crawling and crawl budget
Sitemaps that reflect reality
Include only canonical, indexable, 200-status URLs, keep lastmod honest and split large sites by section.
Why this lesson matters
This lesson belongs to Crawling and crawl budget, the part of Technical SEO Excellence where the goal is: make sure google can reach what matters.
Read it once, then do it straight away on a real site inside RankAudit. Nothing here is theory for its own sake — every step produces something you can show a client.
Do it now
- 1Open RankAudit with sample data already loaded, so you are not stuck on setup.
- 2Crawl a site and triage the issue list.
- 3Crawl a section in RankAudit and list every URL that should not be crawlable.