site.deep-pages
Pages that are more than the configured number of clicks (default 3) from the start URL.
What to change
Flatten the architecture: link important deep pages from category pages, navigation or the homepage.
The documentation on developers.google.comA finding of this rule on a page carries the exact edits for that page: the markup it quotes, and what to write instead.
When it runs
Runs on a crawl or a build directory. Info is a best practice: worth doing, rarely urgent, and --no-info leaves it out. Each finding takes 1 point off the page's score.
The severity here is the rule's usual one: a finding can be raised or lowered when the page gives a reason.
Run it, or skip it
Check a page for this rule alone, after a fix for instance:
npx @rivi-software/agentic-seo-check crawl https://example.com --rule site.deep-pages
Or from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_crawl_site:
{
"url": "https://example.com",
"rules": [
"site.deep-pages"
]
}
To leave it out of an audit, pass --disable site.deep-pages on the command, or disableRules: ["site.deep-pages"] to a tool.
More in Site-wide checks
All 49 rules- Warning
site.duplicate-titlesSeveral indexable pages share the same <title>. - Warning
site.duplicate-descriptionsSeveral indexable pages share the same meta description. - Info
site.duplicate-h1Several pages share the same <h1>. - Warning
site.duplicate-contentPages with identical or near-identical body text. - Warning
site.soft-404A clearly non-existent URL returns HTTP 200 instead of 404. - Warning
site.http-not-redirectedThe http:// version of the site does not redirect to https://. - Warning
site.host-variant-not-redirectedThe www/non-www variant of the host does not redirect to the main host. - Warning
site.hreflang-no-return-linkhreflang alternates do not link back to the page that references them.