Technical SEO
Orphan page
An orphan page is a page that no other page on your site links to. Crawlers struggle to find it, so it is often slow to index or never indexed at all.
Orphan pages usually appear after a redesign or a migration, when old links are dropped but the pages remain.
The fix is simple: link the page from a relevant hub or a related article, and add it to the sitemap.
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