I have many redirects (over 1.000) mainly due to products.
I think it is mainly because We have many products with different colors we want to show. So we make one product "t-shirt-red" than we clone it and get "t-shirt-red-clone". Then we change the URL of course to "t-shirt-green" and then we have a redirect "t-shirt-red-clone" to "t-shirt-green".
Any ideas how to avoid this? Or not a problem at all? E.g. crawl budget will count all those redirects so my crawl budget goes down?
Thank you! But what happens if I do so. Don't I have then the problem that the URL "t-shirt-red-clone" still does exist and there is only no redirect so I get a 404 from the crawler?
From your original post, it sounds to me like "t-shirt-red-clone" never existed except for the time between edits so the crawlers didn't have time to index the page.?
yes, but I dondt know if the original url "t-shirt-red-clone" then still exists and google crawls it and it is even worse because there is no redirect...?
It's only bad if you already have links to the wrong / old url. A url that has only been there for a shory while probably hasn't, so you can delete it and google will quickly find the new url.