{"id":14125,"date":"2020-11-30T14:25:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T14:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.improvemysearchranking.com\/?p=14125"},"modified":"2024-10-31T10:52:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T10:52:01","slug":"a-beginners-guide-to-orphan-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.improvemysearchranking.com\/a-beginners-guide-to-orphan-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"A Beginner\u2019s Guide to Orphan Pages SEO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Technical SEO has a lot of different aspects. Identifying and fixing orphaned pages is one of those important aspects.<\/span>
\nBut what are orphan pages, how they impact SEO, and how to find and fix them?<\/span>
\nIn this post, we discuss all these things and more.<\/span>
\n<\/p>\n

What is an orphan page?<\/b><\/h2>\n

An orphan page on your website is a page that does not have any inbound links. In other words, if none of the pages on your website links to it, it can be referred to as an orphan page.<\/span><\/p>\n

Orphan pages vs. Dead-end pages<\/b><\/h2>\n

It is important to note that orphan pages are not necessarily dead-end pages, and not all dead-end pages are orphaned pages.<\/span>
\nThere is a difference between the two types of pages.<\/span>
\nDead-end pages are those pages that leave visitors with nothing to do. There is nowhere to go and nothing to do on a dead-end page. For example, a 404-error page without any links or a successful checkout page.<\/span>
\nOn the other hand, orphan pages \u2014 as we described earlier \u2014 are pages that don\u2019t have any link pointing to them are just siloed pages on your site.<\/span><\/p>\n

The negative impact of orphan pages on SEO<\/b><\/h2>\n

Because an orphan page does not have any\u00a0<\/span>parent link,\u00a0<\/span><\/i>it can be harder to find for website visitors and for Google search crawlers.<\/span>
\nFrom Google\u2019s perspective, the first step is to find pages to index on your site. If Google search crawlers can\u2019t find a page, it can\u2019t index it and rank it in the search engine results pages (SERPs) \u2014 regardless of how high-quality that page may be.<\/span>
\nGoogle search crawler bots move from links to links. If no page links to an orphan page, it breaks the chain and blocks the path for Google search crawlers to reach it.<\/span>
\nFrom a high-level business perspective, orphan pages are bad because:<\/span><\/p>\n