Are your priority pages linked from the rest of the site?
Pages link to each other. Crawlers discover pages by following links.
What the check looks at
The check looks at the links on the fetched priority pages: a page that links to nothing on your own site, or that nothing links to, is an island — hard to reach by crawling and read as isolated.
Why it matters
Crawlers discover pages by following links. A page reachable only from the sitemap is found late and rarely re-read; a page that links nowhere ends the crawl. Internal links are also how engines learn which pages belong together.
How to see it on your own site
From a priority page, count the links to other pages on your domain. From the homepage, can you click to every page that matters in two steps?
How to fix it
- Link every important page from the navigation or from a hub page.
- Link between related pages in the text — a guide to its tool, a product page to its comparison.
- Give every page at least one outgoing internal link besides the navigation.
What the agent does: the agent lists the dead ends; the links are editorial and belong to you.
Related checks
Part of the 23 checks · group: Page content — text without JavaScript, response time, internal links, answer-first structure, self-contained sections, headings/dates/authorship.
Questions people ask
Is this a full crawl?
No — the check reads the links on the pages it fetched. It finds islands among the priority pages, not across the whole site.
Start with the free check. Then tell the agent what you need.
The free check runs the 23 checks on your public pages. Nothing is installed, nothing changes until you press it.
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