When we talk about website SEO, most people think of keywords, backlinks, and meta descriptions. But one crucial technical factor often goes unnoticed — Crawl Depth . It silently affects how search engines discover, crawl, and index your content. In this blog, we’ll cover what crawl depth is, the common issues it causes, and how you can check and fix them quickly to improve your site’s SEO performance. What is Crawl Depth? Crawl depth refers to the number of clicks it takes for a user (or search engine crawler) to reach a particular page from the homepage. For example: Homepage: Depth 0 Category page linked from homepage: Depth 1 Article linked from category: Depth 2 Related sub-article linked from that article: Depth 3, and so on. The deeper a page is buried within a website, the less likely it is to be discovered and crawled efficiently by search engines. Why Crawl Depth Matters for SEO Search engines like Google allocate a crawl budget to each site — a limit on how many pages ...