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Orphan Pages: Everything You Need to Know

August 29, 2022April 28, 2022 by William Beem, CISSP
Orphan Pages
Learn how orphan pages can impact your search rankings and what you can do about it. Continue reading to learn how to find those pesky orphans before Google does!
Categories Site Structure, Strategy Tags SEO, Site Structure Leave a comment
  1. What is an orphan page and how do they happen? 
  2. Why Orphan Pages Are Bad For SEO?
    1. 1: Orphan Pages Can't Be Indexed
    2. 2: Orphan Pages Use Your Crawl Budget
    3. 3: Orphan Pages Provide a Poor User Experience
    4. 4: Orphan Pages Perform Poorly in SERPs
  3. Use Google Analytics and Other Tools to Find Orphan Pages
  4. What to do if you find orphan pages 
  5. Prevent Orphan Pages
  6. Search Engines Don't Like Orphan URLs
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