What is Crawl Depth?

Crawl depth is the extent to which a search engine indexes pages within a website. Most sites contain multiple pages, which in turn can contain subpages. The pages and subpages grow deeper in a manner similar to the way folders and subfolders (or directories and subdirectories) grow deeper in computer storage.
 
A search engine crawler is an automated script that browses the World Wide Web in a methodical manner in order to provide up to date data to the particular search engine. The process of web crawling involves a set of website URLs that need to be visited, called seeds, and then the search engine crawler visits each web page and identifies all the hyperlinks on the page, adding them to the list of places to crawl.
 
Crawl depth is the extent to which a search engine indexes pages within a website. ... Pages in the same site that are linked directly (with one click) from within the home page have a crawl depth of 1; pages that are linked directly from within crawl-depth-1 pages have a crawl depth of 2, and so on.
 
Crawl depth means how far away the web page is from the home page of your website, so if it is just one folder or directory away from your home page then the crawl depth of that page is one, and if the page is away two steps or directories or folders, then the crawl depth is two, indexing is considered slow, as far away or as in depth our web page goes.
 
In the SEO world, crawling means following your links and “crawling” around your website. When bots come to your website (any page), they follow other linked pages also on your website.
 
Crawl depth refers to how deeper the search engine crawler crawls into your website, i.e., to how many of the multiple pages the crawler crawls on your website to index your website on the SERP. In case of excessive pagination of multiple pages on your website, google crawler rarely crawls through all the pages. This may adversely affect your website ranking on the SERP.
 
A search engine crawler is an automated script that browses the World Wide Web in a methodical manner in order to provide up to date data to the particular search engine. The process of web crawling involves a set of website URLs that need to be visited, called seeds, and then the search engine crawler visits each web page and identifies all the hyperlinks on the page, adding them to the list of places to crawl.
 
A search engine crawler is an automated script that browses the World Wide Web in a methodical manner in order to provide up to date data to the particular search engine. The process of web crawling involves a set of website URLs that need to be visited, called seeds, and then the search engine crawler visits each web page and identifies all the hyperlinks on the page, adding them to the list of places to crawl.
 
Crawl depth is the extent to which a search engine indexes pages within a website. Most sites contain multiple pages, which in turn can contain subpages. The pages and subpages grow deeper in a manner similar to the way folders and subfolders grow deeper in computer storage
 
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