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Orphaned Sitemaps Pages

Indexable pages discovered in an XML Sitemap, which are not linked from any page included in the web crawl.

Priority: Low

Impact: Negative

What issues it may cause​

If pages are not linked from other pages within the main site architecture, they cannot be reached by users navigating through the site which may be unintentional.

The pages are likely to have a poor link equity from other pages which may limit their potential to rank in search engines.

How do you fix it​

The site architecture and internal linking reviewed, and either links added to the pages, or removed from the Sitemaps.

What is the positive impact​

Adding internal links to these pages will potentially improve the rankings, traffic and conversions.

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 GetReportStatForCrawl(
      $crawlId: ObjectID!
      $reportTemplateCode: String!
      $after: String
     ) {
        getReportStat(
          input: {crawlId: $crawlId, reportTemplateCode: $reportTemplateCode}
        ) {
          crawlUrls(after: $after, reportType: Basic) {
            nodes {
              pageTitle
              url
              foundAtUrl
              foundAtSitemap
              deeprank
              level
              sitemapsInCount
              foundInWebCrawl
              foundInSitemap
              foundInGoogleAnalytics
              foundInGoogleSearchConsole
              foundInBacklinks
              foundInList
              foundInLogSummary
              foundInWebCrawl
              foundInSitemap
            }
            totalCount
            pageInfo {
              endCursor
              hasNextPage
            }
          }
       }
     }

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