(Entry was posted by Michelle Hartwell Hamill on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 05/03/2018).

Image URLs and crawl budget

Hi All, I have questions about image urls - example: https://www.clientsite.com/file/happycat100x198png -- do these use up crawl budget
-- should they do noindex, no follow on these or leave as is Thank you!

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Michael Martinez: You cannot manage crawl budget. Only the search engine can do that. Even if you block a URL the search engine may continue to try to fetch it. And image URLs cannot include embedded "noindex" directives. Only HTML documents can do that (even if the...Lihat Lainnya
Michael Martinez: Let me put it this way: search engine optimization manages CRAWL. The search engine assigns a "budget" (based on its available resources and estimates of server responsiveness) to each site`s crawling. The search engine will modify that "budget" as i...Lihat Lainnya
Michelle Hartwell Hamill: Thank you for the insight!