Comments on: Calculate URL Depth Using Excel

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:23:27 +0000

In reply to well.

You’re right, Well — and Aidan: number of directories or URL parameters doesn’t necessarily equate click-depth. It is a reasonable approximative measure though.

Re. Allied.edu: I’m just using that site as an example in my Excel posts as we nor they stand anything to gain from the exposure 🙂

Aidan — nice use of Xenu!

By: Aidan Beanland

Aidan Beanland — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 05:54:14 +0000

In reply to well.

I agree with well – the number of directories in a URL doesn’t automatically equate to click depth (although I’ll be stealing your nifty Excel function for other purposes!). I use Xenu Link Checker to determine click depth as it’s conveniently returned in its crawl report.

By: well

well — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:09:13 +0000

I think it’s not directory depth Google follows, It is all about how the pages are being linked. Think of it as a google PR, The path depth is not important to Google. Usually sites get the most links to the homepage, and from the homepage the PR is spread through the site. In some cases a lower page has a higher PR than the homepage. That’s how many clicks away from the home page that determines the lessening of the PR. Furthermore, almost every single page for allied.edu is a couple of links away from the home page. So, I don’t think the page depth for this case shouldn’t be any problems.

By: mra

mra — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 04:56:38 +0000

Good post and fantastic tricks to know the depth of URL so easily. Blogger can use this trick to know the backlinks depth.
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By: Victor

Victor — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:00:11 +0000

Great! Thanks a lot for this trick, I’ve never thought that url depth was so important. I’ll use this formula to check the depth of the backlinks I get.