How to fix lifecycle products too deep on Magento Open Source

Steps for Magento Open Source

1. Follow the same steps as Adobe Commerce above — the Catalog → Categories tree and CMS widget tools are identical in Magento Open Source.
2. If you have a custom theme, also check your navigation template at app/design/frontend/[Vendor]/[theme]/Magento_Theme/templates/html/ and flatten the menu depth there.
3. Run bin/magento cache:flush after making category changes.

What is lifecycle products too deep?

Click depth (sometimes called "crawl depth") is the minimum number of clicks it takes to reach a page starting from your homepage. A product that lives at Homepage → Category → Subcategory → Sub-subcategory → Product is 4 clicks deep. Search engines treat pages closer to the homepage as more important, and real shoppers simply abandon long navigation chains before they ever find the product. "Too deep" typically means more than 3–4 clicks from the homepage.

Google's crawlers follow links the same way a visitor does. Pages buried 5, 6, or more clicks from the homepage are crawled less frequently, may be crawled with lower "crawl budget" priority, and often rank lower even when the content is excellent. For shoppers, every extra click is a drop-off point — conversion rates fall sharply past 3 navigation steps. Fixing click depth simultaneously improves indexing speed, organic rankings, and the revenue those pages generate. It also makes your site easier to use, reducing cart abandonment from navigation frustration.

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