Source: seoblackhat.com

Click distance is the number of clicks it takes to get to a web page or document from the homepage of the site. Essentially, the lower the click distance, the more value given to the document - if one looks at a site’s navigation as a hierarchical web structure.

So, it page A is five clicks from the homepage and page B is 1 click away, page B should obtain a higher Click Distance score in search engine algorithms.

Similarly, some search engines, Yahoo for instance, may also take into account the distance of a document’s file directory from the site’s root index. For example, domain.com/page.html should be more valuable than domain.com/home/domains/march/page.html, which is burried in the site’s file system.

SEOBlackhat categorical listing pages and Google Sitemap, while setting up their own basic Sitemap which is a list of links to each blog post.

Quadzilla posts :

It’s time for some observations about the experiment.

For the month of September, SEO Black Hat had these search referral numbers:
Google 24889
Yahoo 1047
MSN 503
Ask Jeeves 91
Google Images 82

and these numbers in July
11995 - Google
1145 - MSN
828 - Yahoo
514 - Google Images
34 - Ask Jeeves

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