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Pages with Backlinks but No Links Out

URLs which have backlinks but do not link out to any other pages.

Priority: High

Impact: Negative

What issues it may cause​

These URLs have backlinks from external websites but do not have any internal links to any other pages on your website which means that PageRank cannot to flow to the rest of the website and search engines are unable to discover any additional URLs on these pages.

How do you fix it​

Links should be added on the pages to other relevant pages on the site.

What is the positive impact​

The rankings of other pages may be improved as PageRank can be passed to other pages and distributed throughout the site.

How to fetch the data for this report template​

You will need to run a crawl for report template to generate report. When report has been generated and you have crawl id you can fetch data for the report using the following query:

query GetReportForCrawl($crawlId: ObjectID!, $reportTemplateCode: String!) {
  getCrawl(id: $crawlId) {
    reportsByCode(
      input: {
        reportTypeCodes: Basic
        reportTemplateCodes: [$reportTemplateCode]
      }
    ) {
      rows {
        nodes {
          ... on CrawlUrls {
            pageTitle
            url
            description
            foundAtUrl
            backlinkDomainCount
            deeprank
            level
            backlinkCount
            linksOutCount
            linksInCount
            foundInGoogleAnalytics
            foundInGoogleSearchConsole
            foundInBacklinks
            foundInList
            foundInLogSummary
            foundInWebCrawl
            foundInSitemap
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

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