Broken Links and Crawl Budget

How dead links waste Googlebot's time on large sites.

Crawl budget

The number of URLs Google crawls on your site in a given period. It matters most for large sites.

Effect

Every link to a 404 is a wasted fetch.

Fix

Remove or redirect internal links to dead pages.

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