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Identify Orphaned Pages

Find pages on your site that have no internal links pointing to them, making them invisible to crawlers.

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An orphaned page exists on your server but has no internal links pointing to it. Search engine crawlers cannot discover it through normal crawling, which means it effectively does not exist for SEO. Users can only reach it by knowing the exact URL or finding an external link.

Orphaned pages commonly result from navigation redesigns that drop certain links, content that was published but never linked from related pages, or old pages forgotten during site restructures. Some of these pages may have valuable content or even external backlinks that are being wasted because the page is unreachable.

ToolRouter's crawl_site skill discovers all pages reachable through internal links. By comparing the crawl results against your sitemap or known URL list, you can identify pages that exist but are not linked -- your orphaned content that needs to be either integrated into your site structure or intentionally removed.

Agent Guides

Claude

  1. Connect ToolRouter: claude mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Ask Claude: "Crawl mysite.com and compare against my sitemap.xml to find orphaned pages"
  3. Claude identifies pages in the sitemap that were not discovered during the crawl
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ChatGPT

  1. Configure ToolRouter in ChatGPT
  2. Ask: "Crawl mysite.com and identify pages that no other page links to"
  3. ChatGPT shows orphaned pages that are unreachable through internal navigation
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Copilot

  1. Add ToolRouter to Copilot MCP config
  2. Ask: "Crawl mysite.com and find orphaned pages"
  3. Review the list of pages with no inbound internal links
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OpenClaw

  1. Connect ToolRouter: openclaw mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Ask: "Crawl mysite.com and find pages with no inbound internal links"
  3. OpenClaw identifies orphaned pages unreachable through normal navigation
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