Lack of incoming links: Raptor SEO check

What we look for

No other crawled page links to these pages, counting links to old addresses that forward here and ignoring links a page makes to itself. The crawl's start page is never flagged.

Why it matters

Search engines find and judge pages through links, so a page nothing links to is found late, revisited rarely and treated as unimportant.

How to fix

Link to each page from a related page or a menu, with words that say what it is about. If a page is no longer needed, remove it from the sitemap (the file that lists your pages for search engines) and send its address to a live page with a 301 redirect (a permanent forwarding rule).

What it cannot know

'Orphan' means nothing in this crawl links here. A link from a page Raptor did not crawl would not count.

Where you’ll see it

The id is stable, and every surface uses it, so it’s the thing to search for or hand to an agent.

Terminal: When it is one of the five findings under Fix first, raptor crawl prints the id under it.
Check: links.orphan_pages
crawl.json and the CSV: The crawl JSON names the finding by this id, and so do the CSV and raptor_query.
"check_id": "links.orphan_pages"
The HTML report: This link opens the finding in the report, and each finding shows its id.
crawl.html#finding=links.orphan_pages
MCP: raptor_findings with this check_id returns the finding in full, with a fix brief ready to paste into a task. If it didn’t fire, it says why.
raptor_findings { "job_id": "...", "check_id": "links.orphan_pages" }