diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1a97faa..0247417 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,17 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Added
+- **Detailed crawl diagnostic logging**: Added comprehensive logging to diagnose crawl behavior
+  - Log crawl parameters at start (max_depth, initial URLs count, query keywords)
+  - Debug log showing crawl queue state during processing
+  - Detailed link extraction statistics (total found, added to queue, skipped by reason)
+  - Separate counters for links skipped due to: robots.txt, wrong domain, or max depth reached
+  - Applied to both fresh page fetching and cached page link extraction
+  - Located in `unturf_spider.py:611-613` (crawl_recursive start logging)
+  - Located in `unturf_spider.py:547` (cached page link extraction logging)
+  - Located in `unturf_spider.py:596` (fresh page link extraction logging)
+
 ### Fixed
 - **Critical depth traversal bug**: Fixed issue where cached pages at depth 0 would not extract links, preventing depth 1+ crawling
   - When a page was already cached and `force_crawl=False`, the crawler would return early without extracting links
diff --git a/unturf_spider.py b/unturf_spider.py
index b17b077..826f23c 100644
--- a/unturf_spider.py
+++ b/unturf_spider.py
@@ -510,6 +510,9 @@ class BaseCrawler:
 
                     # Extract links and return them for further crawling
                     new_urls = []
+                    skipped_robots = 0
+                    skipped_domain = 0
+                    skipped_depth = 0
                     for link in links:
                         parsed = urlparse(link)
                         if parsed.scheme not in ("http", "https"):
@@ -530,9 +533,18 @@ class BaseCrawler:
                                 trust_linked_domains and not is_base_or_subdomain and depth == 0
                             ):
                                 should_crawl = True
+
                             if should_crawl:
                                 new_urls.append((f"Linked from {url}", link))
-                    logger.info(f"Found {len(new_urls)} links to crawl at depth {depth+1}")
+                            else:
+                                if not is_base_or_subdomain:
+                                    skipped_domain += 1
+                                else:
+                                    skipped_depth += 1
+                        else:
+                            skipped_robots += 1
+
+                    logger.info(f"Link extraction (cached page): found {len(links)} total, added {len(new_urls)} to crawl queue, skipped {skipped_robots} (robots.txt), skipped {skipped_domain} (wrong domain), skipped {skipped_depth} (max depth reached)")
                     return new_urls
                 else:
                     # At max depth, no need to extract links
@@ -558,6 +570,9 @@ class BaseCrawler:
 
             page_linked_domains = set()
             new_urls = []
+            skipped_robots = 0
+            skipped_domain = 0
+            skipped_depth = 0
             for link in links:
                 parsed = urlparse(link)
                 if parsed.scheme not in ("http", "https"):
@@ -579,8 +594,18 @@ class BaseCrawler:
                         trust_linked_domains and not is_base_or_subdomain and depth == 0
                     ):
                         should_crawl = True
+
                     if should_crawl:
                         new_urls.append((f"Linked from {url}", link))
+                    else:
+                        if not is_base_or_subdomain:
+                            skipped_domain += 1
+                        else:
+                            skipped_depth += 1
+                else:
+                    skipped_robots += 1
+
+            logger.info(f"Link extraction: found {len(links)} total, added {len(new_urls)} to crawl queue, skipped {skipped_robots} (robots.txt), skipped {skipped_domain} (wrong domain), skipped {skipped_depth} (max depth reached)")
             self.cache_article(
                 url,
                 page_title,
@@ -608,7 +633,9 @@ class BaseCrawler:
     ):
         to_crawl = [(title_url, 0) for title_url in start_urls]
         all_urls = []
+        logger.info(f"Starting crawl with max_depth={max_depth}, initial URLs={len(start_urls)}, query_keywords={query_keywords}")
         while to_crawl:
+            logger.debug(f"Crawl queue: {len(to_crawl)} URLs remaining, {len(all_urls)} URLs processed so far")
             current_title_url, depth = to_crawl.pop(0)
             new_urls = self.process_url(
                 current_title_url,