Does page "depth" matter
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Would it have a negative effect on SEO to have a link from the home page to this page...
http://www.website/com/page1deep/page2deep
rather than to this page
http://www.website/com/page1deep
I'm hoping that made some sense. If not I'll try to clarify.
Thanks,
Mark
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I had a quick scan thought the article and it looks likethey are talking from a usability aspect. I am talking from a link juice aspect. Page rank passes only 85% thought a link, so if the home page passes PR of 1 thought each of its likes, the a page one click away only gets 0.85, 2 clicks 0.72, 3 clicks 0.61, 4 clicks 0.52.
It gets a bit more complicated when the pages link back to the home page, theough dopnt pass back as much either.
i have a simple explaination here.
http://thatsit.com.au/seo/tutorials/a-simple-explanation-of-pagerank
And her is a caculator that you can ry to see how it workes out.
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"if page domain.com/rootpage.htm takes 4 clicks to get to it from the home page then you have a problem."
I've always believed it's best to keep the clicks down, but I recently read some research that shows many clicks are not necessarily a problem: http://www.uie.com/articles/three_click_rule/ - though the research is from 2003 and I'd say people have become more impatient and expectant of more instant results since then, it's still interesting and proves that 3 clicks doesn't have to be a rule.
There's also a useful article about "the scent of information" here: http://searchengineland.com/seo-and-the-scent-of-information-26206
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Thank you Geoff, Casey and Alan.
Great answers and exactly what I needed to know.
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Its not how many folders deep your pages is, but how many clicks from the home page it is.
if page domain.com/deep/deep/deep/deeppage.htm is linked from the home page then thats ok.
if page domain.com/rootpage.htm takes 4 clicks to get to it from the home page then you have a problem.
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I might have misunderstood the question but what really matters is how you get to the content not necessarily the URL structure (relevancy required - no spam please).
Given this "freshness" aspect i.e. recent links / social shares will enhance the opportunities for this particular page to appear in the results (given other SEO boxes are "ticked"), the "extra" folders will not matter.
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Hi Mark,
This will not hurt your SEO at all, here is a video from Matt Cutts explaining the issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_A1iRY6XTM
Hope that helps!
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