Internal Linking Tool: Find Orphan Pages and Fix Weak Site Structure

An internal linking tool maps how your pages link to each other, finds pages with too few incoming links, and suggests new links to fix the gaps. This one adds click-depth analysis, anchor text review and broken-link data in the same view.

Orphan pages are pages with no internal links pointing to them. They exist in your sitemap but nothing on your site leads there. Search engines crawl them rarely and rank them poorly, and visitors can only find them through search or a direct link.

At least 3 incoming internal links for any page you want to rank, and more for important pages. There is no fixed upper limit, but links should be topically relevant. The tool flags every page below 3 incoming links by default.

Yes. Internal links pass link equity, the link value that flows between your pages. They help search engines discover and understand content, and they keep visitors on the site longer. It is one of the few ranking levers fully under your control, with no outreach or budget required.

The tool compares page topics across your site and proposes links where content overlaps: a source page, a target page and ready anchor text. Suggestions prioritize orphan and deep pages. You review each one. Nothing changes on your site automatically.

Yes. Broken link results from the checker appear alongside link suggestions in one per-page view. You remove or redirect dead links and add missing ones in the same pass. The combined view works on the web, in WordPress and on Shopify.

Run a crawl. A crawler visits your pages one by one and records every internal link it finds, which is the only reliable way to see them all. The free scan above checks up to 50 pages with no signup and reports your orphan pages and weakest spots.

Open the per-page view. It lists every incoming internal link to that page with its source page and its anchor text. Pages with zero incoming links are marked as orphans, and pages below 3 incoming links are flagged as weak.

Scheduled scans on paid plans re-crawl your site monthly or weekly and compare each run against the last. New orphan pages, deeper click depth and lost links get flagged, so structure problems surface before they cost rankings. New products and posts are the usual source.

Click depth is the number of clicks it takes to reach a page from the homepage. A page at depth 2 is two clicks away. Pages deeper than 3 clicks are a problem: visitors rarely dig that far, and search engines treat deep pages as less important.