☄️ SEO - orphaned sitemap pages

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There are a number of orphaned pages in the sitemap that aren't linked to internally.

An orphaned page is a webpage that is not linked to internally. Including orphaned pages in your sitemap.xml files is considered to be a bad practice, as these pages will be crawled by search engines. Crawling outdated orphaned pages will waste your crawl budget. If an orphaned page in your sitemap.xml file has valuable content, we recommend that you link to it internally.

Semrush-Site_Audit__Orphaned_sitemap_pages-tina_io-4th_Dec_2024.pdf

1. Audit the pages that are orphaned (e.g. should it be linked or is it ok to be orphaned)
2. Create & assign tasks to link all relevant pages (e.g. all blog posts should have a link to the previous & next)
3. Investigate blog posts automatically linking to the previous & next