How to Find Orphan Pages and Decide What to Do With Each One
Orphan pages get no internal links, so visitors and crawlers struggle to reach them. Here is how to find them reliably and decide what each one deserves.
by Emily ParkerInternal Link Analyzer & Opportunity Finder
Map internal links, separate broken from redirected, and find relevant links you haven't added yet.
What this tool does
Builds a scoped graph from your sitemap and a bounded crawl, keeping navigation and contextual links apart, and suggests relevant source→destination links with evidence and anchor text.
What you get
- Graph summary with depth and inbound links
- Broken vs redirected vs temporarily failing links
- Link opportunities with placement and anchor suggestions
Scope
Same host, up to 40 pages and depth 4.
Pages are fetched politely by BacklnkBot, robots.txt is respected, and only public websites can be audited. Every finding shows the evidence it is based on and when it was measured.
Limitations
- • A bounded crawl cannot prove sitewide orphan pages — results say “no incoming links observed in the crawled set”.
- • Importance scores are Backlnk metrics on the crawled graph only.
- • robots.txt is respected; blocked URLs are reported, not fetched.
Frequently asked questions
- Will it crawl my whole site?
- No. It is deliberately bounded and polite; coverage numbers show what was crawled, skipped or blocked.
Guides
Learn the topic behind the internal links check
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