Crawl Depth improvements

[BeckyKey]

Hi

I'm checking the crawl depth report in SEM rush, and looking at pages which are 4+ clicks away.

I have a lot of product pages which fall into this category. Does anyone know the impact of this? Will they never be found by Google?

If there is anything in there I want to rank, I'm guessing the course of action is to move the page so it takes less clicks to get there?

How important is the crawl budget and depth for SEO? I'm just starting to look into this subject

Thank you

[benesmartin]

Hey Becky,

Those pages will be found by Google if you have links pointing to them somewhere on your site. In terms of crawl budget, the more page depth the more time does Google need to spend on crawling your site.

However, with proper internal linking you should be able to significantly lower the amount of clicks. So the next step would be adding some links through relevant anchor texts. After you do this, watch the analytics and let me know if it had any impact.

Hope it helps. Cheers, Martin