Orphan pages: the content you paid for and hid
Pages nothing links to rarely rank. We found an average of 41 per site. Here's how to bring them back.
Tobias Wren
Co-founder, engineering
An orphan page has no internal links pointing to it. Search engines find it through the sitemap, if at all, and treat it as unimportant.
Linking them back
The best link comes from a page that already ranks for a related query. Rankwick suggests the source page and the sentence to put the link in.
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