- Category
- Technical SEO
- Level
- Intermediate
- Found by
- Comparing a crawl with your sitemap or analytics
- Fix
- Link to it from relevant pages, or remove it
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- Internal Link Finder
What is an orphan page?
If no page on your site links to a URL, crawlers can only find it through a sitemap or external links, and visitors can't navigate to it. Orphans often come from old campaigns, removed menu items, or pages published without being linked.
How to find them
Crawl your site by following links, then compare the URLs found with the URLs in your sitemap or in analytics. Pages that exist but weren't reached by the crawl are orphans.
How to fix them
- If the page matters, link to it from related pages with descriptive anchor text.
- If it's outdated, redirect it to its replacement or remove it.