Which pages can crawlers not reach by a link?
A page listed in your sitemap but linked from nowhere is an orphan. Search engines crawl orphans far less often, so good pages quietly underperform. This compares your sitemap against the links on your home page.
Compares sitemap URLs against the links found on the home page. A bounded preview of internal reachability, not a full link graph.
How this check works
Shipwork reads your sitemap and extracts the links from your home page, then reports sitemap URLs that no link on the home page points to. It is a fast signal, not a full crawl: page two of a large site needs the paid deep crawl to map completely.
Questions
- What is an orphan page?
- A page that exists and may be in your sitemap but is not linked from anywhere on the site, so crawlers rarely find it.
- Do orphan pages hurt SEO?
- They are crawled less often and pass no internal link equity, so they rank worse than an identical linked page.
- Is this a full link crawl?
- No. The free check compares the sitemap against home-page links as a fast signal. Mapping every internal link needs the deep crawl.