What does the link depth check measure?
It measures how deep a page sits in your site's link structure, relative to the homepage. Specifically:
- Click depth — the fewest clicks needed to reach the page from the homepage by following links.
- Crawl priority — whether the page is shallow enough to be crawled regularly or buried where it's neglected.
- Structure — whether important content is reachable in a few clicks rather than stranded many levels deep.
Three clicks or fewer passes; four to five clicks is a warning; more than five clicks (rarely crawled) is a fail.
How is it evaluated, and how is it scored?
GEObubbly maps the path from your homepage to the URL and counts the minimum clicks. It's an extended Links & Authority check that runs server-side, since determining depth requires crawling the link structure of the site.
Why link depth matters for SEO and GEO
Link depth — how many clicks it takes to reach a page from the homepage — is a practical signal of importance. The homepage is usually the most authoritative page and the most frequently crawled, and that authority and crawl attention flow outward through links. Pages close to the homepage (a few clicks) inherit more of it and get crawled more often; pages buried many levels deep get less authority, are discovered and re-crawled slowly, and can be effectively neglected — engines may rarely visit a page that's more than five clicks down. A common guideline is to keep important content within about three clicks of the homepage. You achieve this with a flatter, well-linked architecture: sensible navigation, category hubs, related-content links and internal links that surface deep pages closer to the top, rather than long single chains that push content ever deeper. For GEO, shallow, well-linked important pages are crawled more reliably, keeping your key content available to the engines that cite it.