Roundup: internal linking proven by logs

Roundup: internal linking proven by logs

Link changes, crawl outcomes, measured.

→ Onely link-depth study — logs showed pages 5+ clicks from home were crawled 7x less than pages at depth 2. Flattening the worst section lifted its crawl rate 4x in a month.
Takeaway: crawl frequency falls off a cliff with click depth.

⭐ Pick of the week — Merj equity-flow case — correlated log crawl frequency with internal link count per URL and found the relationship near-linear up to ~30 links. Used it to prioritize which pages to link to next.
Takeaway: logs turn 'add internal links' into a ranked list.

→ Sitebulb crawl-depth report docs — the static counterpart to the live log view.
Takeaway: combine modeled depth with observed crawls.