As we all know the fewest clicks we can reach a post from the homepage, can help us a lot in serps. But the question is, the number of folders matter? I mean if i have a post which can be clicked from the Homepage (because of the parent architecture): example.com/category/subcategory/sub-subcategory/post.php (html) How the crawler sees this post? Can be relevant in serps? Can me more relevant than the competition post: which is 3 clicks away from the homepage: competition.com/category/post.php ? (which is not clickable from the homepage)? But as we can see the competition have only one folder until the blog post, but it is at more clicks away Thanks, Best
I would keep the number of clicks to a minimum and also the URL as short as possible. I have found that the shorter URLs tend to rank better.
well ya, but my question is: -the crawler sees just only if a page has a link on it? I mean on homepage I have the link: website/category/post/post2/post3.html, the crawler sees that link ok? or the crawler crawls: the /category/ after that the post/ after that the post2/ and after that post3.html ?
Is your page the best answer for the search query? If so wtf would it matter really? (two clicks should be the aim max though) Though oviously it's not quite that simple as, well, then we play...
You are over-thinking and worrying too much about nothing. The crawler sees the link and follows that directly. Choose a site structure you like (that you think is good for your audience) and stick with it. Don't worry about Googlebot so much.