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Orphan pages

Pages nothing links to

Find and fix orphan pages, in nine slides.

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The short answer

A page no page links to

Search engines find pages by following links, so orphans are slow to be found.

What is an orphan page

Why they happen

Usually forgotten

  • ✓After a migration
  • ✓Content moved or renamed
  • ✓A new page nobody linked
Why they happen

Finding them

Compare the lists

  • ✓Crawl by links
  • ✓Add the sitemap
  • ✓Spot what the crawl missed
How to find them

A real crawl

13

orphan pages out of 353

An online store, 14 Oct 2026.

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Five decisions

One for every orphan

  • ✓Link to it
  • ✓Merge or redirect it
  • ✓Remove or noindex it
The five decisions

Prevent them

Link on publish

  • ✓Two links for every new page
  • ✓Hub pages and lists
  • ✓Crawl monthly
Keep them away
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