Well, it’s unclear if you’re asking how many levels deep it is in terms of directories, or far it is from the root page. One way that you can make sure that Google reaches those pages is link from your root page, your main page directly to the deep page that you wanted to be crawled.
So we tend not to think about how many directories deep the page is, but we do look at how much PageRank a page has. So, if a lot of people link to your root page, then you can link to sub pages and those sub pages can link to other sub pages. At some point, then we’ll stop crawling.
One thing that you can do is you can make sure that as many pages as possible are within just a few clicks from your root page. A good way to do it is to prioritize which pages you think are the most important; either they convert the way that you want or they have really good ROI, so, you know, don’t treat all of your pages the same.
If you’ve got a few that are real money-makers, try to surface those and get them kind of linked to from your root page, so that you can make most out of it.
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- Hi Matt, what are your opinions on optimizing an Ecommerce website where the main pages/products may not necessarily be rich in content?
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