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 bounded sample of your pages and the links between them. Nothing is stored.
How this check works
Shipwork crawls a sample 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 is a sample, 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 bounded sample. Mapping every internal link across a large site is the paid deep crawl.