Build a crawl-depth priority list the bot will respect

Build a crawl-depth priority list the bot will respect
Client's best pages sat at depth 5 while junk sat at depth 1. Backwards. The reshuffle:
— Crawl, export URL + crawl depth + traffic/revenue
— Sort: high-value pages at high depth = your fix list
— For the top 20: add a direct link from the homepage or a top-nav category hub
— Demote junk — pull thin/dead pages out of main nav so they sink in depth
— Re-crawl, confirm money pages now sit at depth 2-3
— Spot-check in Crawl Stats that bot frequency on those URLs rose
Got the revenue pages from depth 5 to depth 2. Crawl frequency on them doubled inside a month.
Homepage link slots are finite — only promote pages that actually earn, not everything.