: Does how deep a page is in the page hierarchy affect it's ranking? Does how deep a page is in the page hierarchy affect it's ranking? For example, if I click 5 times on a "show more" button

@BetL925

When it is harder it is to navigate to a page it will rank worse than a page that is easier to navigate to. Search engines use inbound links to a page to determine how important a page is. Google calls this concept "PageRank". A more generic term for it is "link juice".

Each page passes most of its link juice (say 90%) to the pages to which it links. So if "link one" has 1.000 Juice, and it links to 10 pages including "link two", then "link two" will only have 0.090 Juice. Similarly "think three" will have 0.0081 Juice. It goes down quickly.

Better linking strategies for SEO more closely link all the pages together. For example your first page may be able to link to 10 other pages in the series. The "related" questions links on the right hand side of this page are there in no small part to pass link juice efficiently through this site.

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