Rankelle

Page links nowhere

This page has no links to other pages on the site. Search engines follow links to discover and rank pages; a dead end passes nothing on.

How to fix it

Add relevant internal links to related pages.

When it is not a problem

Some pages are meant to be terminal: a checkout step, a confirmation. The finding is informational so those do not get 'fixed' by adding navigation that damages the page's job.

How Rankelle handles it

  • SeverityInformational. Often correct as it stands, and reported so you can see the pattern rather than so you can clear it.
  • DetectionDetected on a single page while crawling it, then grouped with the other pages under the same URL pattern.
  • GroupingEvery page with this finding under the same URL pattern becomes one cause, with a confidence taken from how much of the pattern is affected. 400 of 400 is a template; 6 of 14 is phrased as a question.
  • LandingThe affected URLs stay under cheap watch. When this finding is gone from all of them, the fix is marked landed without anyone reporting the deploy.
  • VerdictAt landing, comparable untouched URLs are frozen as a control set. Twenty-eight days later the two are compared, and the fix can come back as having done nothing.

Try it on your own site, free

No card, and the free tier does not expire — the first verdict takes about six weeks to arrive.