Robots & Crawl Budget
Robots.txt and crawl budget cleanup for pages accidentally blocked from Google.
We read your robots.txt line by line, check what Googlebot is actually spending its time on, and fix the parameter or leftover staging rules quietly costing you visibility.
- Fast written quote, one business day
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- 30-day guarantee, pay only if satisfied
What we set up
Rules that block what should be blocked, nothing else.
A robots.txt read-through
We check for accidental blocks, the classic mistake being a leftover Disallow rule from a staging site that got pushed live by accident.
A parameter review
On stores or catalogs with filters, we check whether Google is spending its crawl time on thousands of near-duplicate filtered URLs instead of your real pages.
A Crawl Stats review
Search Console's Crawl Stats report shows what Googlebot is actually fetching, how often, and which response codes it is hitting, and we read that report line by line.
A written update
The robots.txt correction and any parameter-handling recommendation are scoped to what your actual platform supports, since Shopify, WordPress, and custom builds each handle this differently.
The scope, in plain terms.
What we need from you
Search Console access for the Crawl Stats report, and CMS or server access to edit robots.txt itself.
What you get
The corrected robots.txt file, the Crawl Stats findings written up in plain language, and the parameter-handling recommendation for your platform.
How we prove it works
We confirm in Search Console's own robots.txt tester that the new file blocks only what was intended, and that nothing you actually want visible in search results is accidentally disallowed.
What this does not cover
Crawl budget is genuinely a non-issue for most sites under a few thousand pages, by Google's own guidance, so on a small site this job may conclude nothing needs changing, and we say so instead of inventing work.
How the engagement runs.
01
Audit robots.txt and Crawl Stats
We read the current file and pull Search Console's crawl data to see what is actually happening.
02
Flag what should not be blocked
Anything hiding a page you actually want visible gets flagged and explained before we touch it.
03
Ship the correction
The fix goes live and we confirm it in the robots.txt tester before calling the job done.
Robots.txt and crawl budget FAQ.
No, and this trips a lot of site owners up. Disallow stops Googlebot from crawling the page, but if the page is linked elsewhere, it can still appear in results without a snippet. A noindex tag is the actual tool for keeping a page out of results entirely.
It is how much time and attention Googlebot gives your site before moving on. By Google's own guidance, it is rarely a real concern for smaller sites. We check your numbers honestly rather than manufacturing a problem that is not there.
Yes. A leftover Disallow: / from a staging environment pushed to production is the classic version of this accident, and it can block Googlebot from your entire site until someone catches it.
The Crawl Stats review tells us. On a smaller, well-structured site, this audit sometimes concludes there is nothing worth changing, and we will tell you that instead of billing for work that would not help.
Pricing depends on site size and platform. We quote it after reading your current robots.txt and Crawl Stats, free, within one business day.
Make sure your own robots.txt is not the problem.
Send us your domain and we will check what Googlebot can actually see, and quote any fix, free, within one business day.