Backlinks Not Crawling

[Alex Jones]

Hi, 

Please help me, I have 3000 Backlinks on my site, but every time Google bot crawls only 1000 or 800 links on each crawl only Why?

[thomas598henry]

Google doesn’t crawl all backlinks at once due to crawl budget limits, link quality, and relevance. Focus on high-authority, indexable links to improve crawl coverage. Bible Chat

[aliceanna]

You can go with tier-2... tier-3 link building technique

[louischan]

That’s normal behavior—Googlebot doesn’t crawl all your backlinks or pages every time. A few reasons:

Crawl budget: Google allocates a limited crawl rate based on your site’s authority, server performance, and overall trust.

Link quality: Not every backlink gets counted or followed. Low-quality, spammy, or nofollowed links may be skipped.

Indexing priorities: Google focuses on pages it considers most relevant, useful, or updated, rather than hitting all links every crawl.

Server load management: To avoid overloading, Google spreads crawling over time instead of fetching everything in one go.

[charlesprabhu]

1. Technical Restrictions on the Linking Page
robots.txt Disallow: The website owner has used their robots.txt file to tell search engine crawlers not to visit the specific page containing your link.

Noindex Tag: The linking page has a noindex meta tag in its HTML, which instructs search engines to crawl the page but not to add it to their index (search results).


Nofollow/UGC/Sponsored Link: The link itself is marked with a rel attribute like nofollow, ugc (user-generated content), or sponsored. While Google may still crawl these, they are typically treated as hints not to pass significant ranking credit, which can affect their visibility in backlink reports.


2. Low Quality or Crawl Budget Issues
Low Authority Linking Site: The site hosting your link is very new, has low domain authority, or is infrequently updated. Search engines crawl these sites less often, leading to significant delays in discovering new links.

Thin or Duplicate Content: The content on the linking page is low-quality, very short, or too similar to other content on the web, making the search engine see it as not worth indexing.

Orphaned Page: The linking page is not properly linked to internally from other pages on its own website (e.g., no links from the homepage, sitemap, or main navigation), making it hard for crawlers to discover.

3. Simple Time Delay
Indexing Lag: Crawling the entire web is a massive task. Even for a page that isn't restricted, it can take days, weeks, or even months for a search engine to discover a brand new backlink, crawl the page, process the link, and update its reports.