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Pages Buried Too Deep in Site Structure on WordPress

Some pages require more than 3 clicks from the homepage to reach. Deep pages receive less crawl priority and rank less well.

Issue ID: CRAWL-DEPTH-001Severity: moderateEffort: M

Why this matters

Some pages require more than 3 clicks from the homepage to reach. Deep pages receive less crawl priority and rank less well. This affects how clearly search engines understand the page and how persuasive it looks in search results.

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How to fix this on WordPress

Add internal links from related pages and posts.

  1. 1Open related pages in the editor.
  2. 2Add contextual links to the orphaned or poorly-linked page.
  3. 3Update and verify the link structure with a crawl tool.

After you fix it

  • ✓Crawl the site and confirm no important page is more than 3 clicks deep

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Fix pages buried too deep in site structure on a different CMS

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