Glossary Terms
Crawl depth
How many clicks a page sits from your homepage, affecting search engine attention.
Crawl depth is how many clicks a page sits from your homepage. The deeper a page is buried, the less attention search engines tend to give it. Most sites never plan this; pages just drift further from the surface as the site grows. When pages that matter end up several clicks down, their visibility quietly suffers. A common rule of thumb is to keep anything you want to rank within three clicks of the homepage: home to a hub page to the page itself. Beyond that, search engines still find the page eventually, but they crawl it less often and treat it as less important, and human visitors rarely click that far to begin with. The usual cause is not a deliberate decision, it is an archive or category page that never got built, so new content has nowhere to link from except a chronological blog feed that pushes everything down as soon as the next post publishes. A hub page that links out to the pages in its topic, updated as new pages arrive, is the fix: it gives every page in that group a short, stable path back to the homepage instead of a path that gets longer every week.
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