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Lukasz Zelezny

Crawl Depth in SEO

Crawl depth refers to the depth at which search engines crawl your website.

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Crawl Depth

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Search engines will follow the initial page’s links to your website’s other pages. If those pages have links, search engines may follow them as well.

How to Improve Crawl Depth?

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How to Improve Crawl Depth

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Nofollow links 

Internal nofollow links can hurt crawl depth.

How to Improve Crawl Depth

Broken Links

Along with nofollow links, broken links can harm crawl depth.

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How to Improve Crawl Depth

robots.txt

You should also avoid blocking search engines with a robots directive. Robots directives are rule-based instructions in the robots protocol standard. You can use them to keep search engines from crawling specific pages.

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