Level of the page ?

[bcc1234]

How does Google calculate a level of depth of a page relative to the domain ?

Is it by sub-directories, like:

domain/sub1/sub2/sub3/mypage.html

or by links:

home -> some page -> another page -> mypage.html

[Robber]

I would cover both angles. Although that said, having changed a site structure to reduce level of directories from 3 to 2 didnt help much on Google (but it did help a lot on FAST but thats another Forum!).

As for depth of links, I would definitely keep that a short as possible.

[Nick_W]

Yes, I definately get better traffic from a shallow directory structure. It's okay to put the 'about us' pages a few levels deep but all important pages shouldn't be more than a directory/link away.

Nick

[ciml]

The Toolbar guess for URLs that are unknown to Google and have no PageRank, but are on domains with PageRank, uses the number of "/" characters in the URL.

Real PageRank is diluted by links, not "/" characters.

bcc, are these what you meant, or some other reason for Google to calculate "level of depth"?

[bcc1234]

bcc, are these what you meant, or some other reason for Google to calculate "level of depth"?

Yeap, thanks.