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title: Serve stale to search crawlers for better ranking
summary: Prioritize human traffic over search crawlers by serving stale content to crawlers.
url: https://www.fastly.com/documentation/solutions/examples/serve-stale-to-search-crawlers
---

Prioritize human traffic over search crawlers by serving stale content to crawlers.

## VCL

[Try it in Fastly Fiddle](https://fiddle.fastly.dev/c12d9b59)