Orphaned content refers to web pages or content on your website that is not linked to any other page. These pages can often be difficult to find, but they can affect your website performance and search engine rankings.
How do you find orphaned content on your WordPress website? It’s easier than you think.
Understanding Orphaned Content
Let’s first understand what orphaned content is and how it affects your site. Orphaned content can be of different types, such as:
- Blog posts
- Pages
- Images
- Video
- Other media files
Orphaned content can be created for a variety of reasons, such as when URL changes break links between pages or when there is a problem with a site’s internal linking structure. This can cause some serious SEO visibility problems as orphaned content affects how Google crawls your website and searches for new information.
Search engines need these links to understand the relationships between different pieces of information on your site so that they can provide relevant results to users’ queries. Orphaned content also takes up valuable server space, reducing your opportunities to insert more useful content like videos and images into your website.
Finding and Fixing Orphaned Content in WordPress
Finding orphaned content is rather simple. All you need is the right plugin that will scan your WordPress website for pages and pieces of content that are not linked to any other page. There are some great solutions out there, but our favorite solution is link whisper,
Link Whisper is a comprehensive WordPress plugin that helps you optimize your website for search engine rankings by tuning your internal linking structure and lets you know where all your links are pointing and how to further optimize them. It does, of course, include a great feature set to help you sort out the orphaned material. The plugin will scan your website to find pages with no inbound links. It will also suggest what to do with them, such as linking to them from relevant pages, redirecting their URLs to new pieces of content, or removing them altogether.
To use Link Whisper for this – and after installing and activating the plugin – go to the Link Whisper section in wp-admin and click orphan post,
Once you’ve done that, the plugin will show you all of your posts that don’t have links pointing to them from any other posts. just click Add Button next to the post, and new links are added with the help of Link Whisper.
That’s it! We recommend prioritizing any pages you decide on, as they have the most potential for SEO optimization.
Final thoughts
Orphaned content can have a huge impact on your website performance and search engine rankings. Luckily, you don’t need to be an SEO expert to find and fix this – all you need is the right WordPress plugin like Link Whisper.
Scan your pages regularly and fix any content you find to maximize their visibility and user experience. It’s worth the effort!
