v0.6.2: Orphan Page Detection for SEO Audits
New SEO check detects orphan pages with zero incoming internal links. The 24th automated check, available in CLI and desktop.
What’s New in v0.6.2
Orphan Page Detection (23 → 24 Total Checks)
The crawler now detects orphan pages - pages that exist on your site but have zero incoming internal links pointing to them. These pages are effectively invisible to users navigating your site and are harder for search engines to discover and index.
This is the 24th automated SEO check, bringing the full list to:
- 4 title checks (missing, short, long, duplicate)
- 4 meta description checks (missing, short, long, duplicate)
- 6 H1 checks (missing, multiple, empty, long, short, duplicate)
- 3 content checks (missing, short, long)
- 5 technical checks (long URLs, noindex, nofollow, non-self canonicals, paginated pages)
- 1 broken links check
- 1 orphan pages check (new)
How It Works
During the crawl, the crawler now collects all internal links found on every page. After the crawl completes, the SEO analysis compares the set of crawled pages against the set of pages that received at least one internal link. Any page with zero incoming internal links (excluding the start URL) is flagged as an orphan.
The start URL is excluded from the check because it is typically the homepage and is reached directly rather than through internal links.
CLI Usage
Orphan page detection is automatic. Run crawler seo as usual:
crawler crawl https://example.comcrawler seo example-com.crawlThe Orphan pages section appears in the SEO report alongside all other checks. Export with --export csv or --export txt as normal.
Backward Compatibility
If you run crawler seo on a .crawl file generated by an older version of the crawler, the orphan page check is automatically skipped since the older format does not include internal_links data. Re-crawl your site with v0.6.2 or later to enable the check.
Desktop App
The desktop app picks up orphan pages automatically in the SEO Issues card. Each orphan page is listed with its URL, making it easy to identify pages that need internal links added.
Who Benefits
- SEO professionals can find pages that waste crawl budget and miss out on link equity from the rest of the site
- Content teams can discover forgotten or poorly linked content that deserves more visibility
- Developers get orphan page data in
.crawlfiles and exports for integration into content auditing workflows
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Wrap-up
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