If I were establishing a "crawl budget", it would be adjusted by value. If you're consistently serving up hits as I crawl, I'll keep crawling. If it's a hundred pages that will basically never be a first page result, maybe not.
Wikipedia had a long tail of low-value content, but even the low-value content tends to be among the highest value for its given focus. e.g., I don't know how many people search "Danish trade monopoly in Iceland", and the Wikipedia article on it isn't fantastic, but it's a pretty good start[0]. Good enough to serve up as the main snippet on Google.
Wikipedia had a long tail of low-value content, but even the low-value content tends to be among the highest value for its given focus. e.g., I don't know how many people search "Danish trade monopoly in Iceland", and the Wikipedia article on it isn't fantastic, but it's a pretty good start[0]. Good enough to serve up as the main snippet on Google.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_trade_monopoly_in_Icela...