How to Find Orphan Pages (and Decide Whether to Link, Merge or Remove Them)
Find orphan pages by comparing your crawl with sitemaps, analytics and Search Console, then decide whether to link, merge, redirect or remove each one.
Guides to crawling, indexing, canonicals, sitemaps, robots.txt, JavaScript SEO, Core Web Vitals and site migrations.
Find orphan pages by comparing your crawl with sitemaps, analytics and Search Console, then decide whether to link, merge, redirect or remove each one.
A step-by-step SEO checklist for redesigns, domain changes and platform moves: URL mapping, 301 redirects, sitemaps, Change of Address and monitoring.
What LCP, INP and CLS measure, Google’s thresholds, field vs lab data, how Core Web Vitals relate to rankings, and the fixes that move each metric.
How Google crawls, renders and indexes JavaScript sites, the common JavaScript SEO problems (links, soft 404s, noindex, canonicals) and how to test them.
The robots.txt mistakes that block pages, leak URLs into Google or stop crawling, with Google’s rules on precedence, wildcards, status codes and noindex.
What canonical tags do, how Google picks a canonical URL, the strongest signals, common mistakes, and how to fix ‘Google chose different canonical’.
Fix XML sitemap problems in Search Console: Couldn’t fetch, Has errors, URL not allowed, parsing errors, size limits, and URLs that aren’t indexed.
Why pages aren’t indexed and how to fix it: each Search Console Page indexing reason explained, from noindex and soft 404s to crawled not indexed.
Find and diagnose crawl errors with Search Console: Page indexing reasons, URL Inspection, Crawl stats host status, and which errors actually need fixing.
A practical technical SEO checklist: crawling, indexing, canonicals, sitemaps, robots.txt, rendering, speed and site structure, in the order to check them.
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