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0:59Our Next.js site has 5,000 pages; Google thought we had 1.5 million. Duplicate junk was eating our entire crawl budget. Our SEO hire's first job wasn't new content — it was deleting confusion.
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So for the last few months, we have hired someone experienced in SEO and here's number one thing he has been doing. Not just about the creation of new content pages, he has been very focused on getting rid of the clutter. So what has happened was our website is built with Next.js. So there's a lot of coding which was kind of working in a way where Google was getting so much confused that even though we have 5,000 pages, Google was thinking we have 1.5 million pages. Yeah, let that make sense. Now how does this affect is basically Google have something called crawl budget. So if you're having so many pages, Google cannot look at all of them, right? They have some limits. So the best part for you, if you want your pages to be indexed for Google to be able to understand what you have, make sure to get rid and make sure it's clear to Google. It's quite complicated depth. I'll write a full blog about it. Give me a comment link. I'll share you the whole guide.