Technical SEO
Crawl Depth
Crawl depth refers to how many clicks away from the homepage a search engine bot must travel to reach a given page on a website. Pages with a shallow crawl depth (1–3 clicks from home) are typically crawled and indexed more frequently and reliably than those buried deep in the site architecture.
Crawl depth is visualized using Screaming Frog's site visualization features and site crawl reports from Ahrefs, SEMrush, or DeepCrawl. Reducing crawl depth for important pages — through improved internal linking and site architecture — is a key technical SEO optimization measured through Google Search Console coverage reports.
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Crawl Budget
The number of URLs a crawler will fetch on a site within a given timeframe — a function of server capacity (crawl rate limit) and content popularity/freshness (crawl demand).
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Crawling
Crawling refers to the process whereby bots systematically browse through a website.
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Internal Links
Hyperlinks that direct users from one page to another within a website are called internal links.
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Sitemap
Refers to xml extension files that allow bots to examine the website faster and in more detail.