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They could just noindex them.

• TRiG_Ireland 3y ago
  Google still needs to crawl them to see the noindex tag. And when Google is crawling a lot of pages on your site, it'll be slow.
  • weird-eye-issue 3y ago
    This is only an issue if you have millions of pages Also, it will slow down the crawl frequency if you noindex it So it's a non problem
    • mrguyorama 3y ago
      >This is only an issue if you have millions of pages You know, like a news website that's been on the internet since the 90s
      • weird-eye-issue 3y ago
        > Also, it will slow down the crawl frequency if you noindex it Eventually Google stops crawling noindexed pages.