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Crawl budgets, canonicals and the cost of ambiguity

Search engines respond to a system of signals; inconsistency makes outcomes harder to predict.

The question

Why do seemingly small technical inconsistencies become costly at scale?

Where I'd start

Diagnose patterns rather than isolated URLs and make the intended signals easy to understand and maintain.

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