Crawl Depth

#27301
  • Resolved Andy Mattock
    Rank Math pro

    Hi

    I’m trying to reduce the crawl depth of pages on my site.
    The page attached in the sensitive data is showing as a crawl depth of 6 when I’ve used Screaming Frog to crawl my site.
    This is because this project page is showing up on page 2 of a category.
    The category is ‘no indexed’ (hence the red in the image shown).
    How do I stop the listing being shown as a crawl depth of 6?

    Thanks
    Andy

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  • Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

    You can reduce the crawl depth of your pages by increasing internal linking on your site. For the page in question, you can add an internal link to it from the homepage and this will reduce its crawl depth to 2.

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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    Hi
    Yes, the crawl depth of the actual project page is 3:
    https://brighton-website-design.co.uk/project/brighton-legal/

    However, it’s also appearing in a crawl showing in a category on page 2 (hence also showing as a crawl depth of 6).
    Is there a way of changing the meta settings so posts/pages/projects aren’t being crawled under their category listing?

    Thanks
    Andy

    Todd
    Rank Math free

    Hello Andy,

    As you mentioned, the page/2 is already set to noindex.

    So, Google will not index that page and hence the error you mentioned in your crawl report is a false positive.

    Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

    Hello,

    Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.

    If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.

    Thank you.

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