Crawl depth in SEO refers to how many clicks it takes for a search engine crawler to reach a specific page on a website from the homepage. Managing crawl depth effectively ensures that important pages are easily accessible to search engines, improving their visibility and potential ranking in search results.

SEOClarity contributor Suraj Lalchandani has published an in-depth article on increasing crawl efficiency.

He says, “The search engine’s process of finding and including web pages in SERPs consists of four steps:

  • Crawl, in which search engine bots go through a website to discover its content. Typically, they do so by following internal links, but crawlers can also use the sitemap for this purpose.
  • Render, at which stage, the crawler renders each page to identify and analyze its content. This step is all about learning what a page is about and evaluating its content (among other things) to determine its quality and authority.
  • Index, when the search engine includes (or updates) the information about those pages in its index.
  • Rank, which is all about associating the page in a relevant position for a specific query in the Google search results.”

Crawl Depth in SEO: How to Increase Crawl Efficiency

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