Do your internal links actually reach your pages?
Internal linking decides what Google crawls, how often, and which pages collect the most authority. This maps how deep each page sits, which pages link nowhere, and which are linked by nothing.
Reads a set of your pages and the links between them. Saved to your account if you are signed in to a paid plan.
How this check works
Shipwork crawls a set of your pages, extracts every internal link, and builds the graph: how many clicks each page is from the home page, which pages link nowhere internally, and which are linked by nothing. Because it reads only some pages, a reported depth is a floor: a page can be shallower, never deeper. The paid deep crawl maps every link on the whole site.
Questions
Why does internal linking matter?
Crawlers follow links. Pages a few clicks from the home page are crawled more often and receive more internal authority, so they tend to rank better than identical pages buried deeper.
What is click depth?
The number of links you must follow from the home page to reach a page. Three clicks or fewer is a common target for pages you want to rank.
What is a dead-end page?
A page with no outgoing internal links. It receives authority but passes none on, and leaves a crawler with nowhere to go next.
Is this a full link crawl?
No. The free check maps a set of pages. Mapping every internal link across a large site is the paid deep crawl.
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What this reads
- Reads public pages from outside your network, the way a crawler does.
- No signup, and nothing is stored on the free checks.
- One of 83 checks across discovery, content, markup, trust and catalogue data.
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0signups needed
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Cool, just ran an audit and got some insights! Let’s see if I can fix them :)
Whoah! this site is crazy, nothing to roast at all
cool as heck, tried it on my blog and the insights it gave are helpful and not bluff.