Depth of Links on Ecommerce Site

[bjs2010]

Hi,

In my sitemap, I have the preferred entrance pages and URL's of categories and subcategories.

But I would like to know more about how Googlebot and other spiders see a site - e.g. - what is classed as a deep link? I am using Screaming Frog SEO spider, and it has a metric called level on it - and this represents how deep or how many clicks away this content is.. but I don't know if that is how Googlebot would see it -

From what Screaming Frog SEO spider software says, each move horizontally across from Navigation is another level which visually doesnt make sense to me?

Also, in my sitemap, I list the URL's of all the products, there are no levels within  the sitemap.

Should I be concerned about this?

Thanks,

B

[mememax]

Hi BJS, normally the most important page of a website is the homepage not just because it is the homepage but because is the most linked page interanlly where all the juice flows, so the pages which are nearest the homepage are supposed to be the most important too. The farest they are from your homepage, so the more hidden they are the least important they are.

Moreover if a page is widely linked internally the more important it should be just because if many products belongs to a category, the most this category is linked through breadcrumbs and the more content it has.

Don't be concerned about having products deep in structure is normal that for the most competitive kw categories are the pages which are focusing on those terms because these are the most useful pages for users to filter and find what they're looking for.