Google has claimed that exposing many low-value URLs can negatively affect a site's crawling and indexing.

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Sources

• What Crawl Budget Means for Googlebot

  Google Search Central Blog · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-18

  “having many low-value-add URLs can negatively affect a site's crawling and indexing” — Section "Factors affecting crawl budget"

• Crawl Budget Management For Large Sites

  Google Search Central Documentation · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-18

  “Exposing many URLs on your site that you don't want crawled by Search can negatively affect a site's crawling and indexing” — Section on avoiding crawl-budget waste

• Troubleshoot Google Search Crawling Errors | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google for Developers

  Google · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-18

  “Exposing many URLs on your site that you don't want crawled by Search can negatively affect a site's crawling and indexing.” — lines 209-215

• Googlebot Crawl Budget Explained by Google's Gary Illyes

  Search Engine Journal · retrieved 2026-08-18

  “Illyes recommends not wasting resources on low-value-add URLs which can steal crawl activity away from your high-quality content” — Summary of Illyes crawl budget explainer

• Index Bloat in SEO: What It Is & How to Fix It

  Search Engine Land · retrieved 2026-08-18

  “If you have a lot of junk pages, you might end up with Google crawlers on these pages” — line 290