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Internal Link Checker
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What the check looks at · 5 components
What the check looks at
You enter a URL. The tool reads your sitemap, crawls up to 150 pages the way a search engine does and builds the internal link graph from that. From the graph it derives, per page, how many links it receives, how far it sits from your homepage and how much authority it collects internally.
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Orphan pages
Pages that are in your sitemap but linked from no crawled page at all. Google finds them through the sitemap at best and gives them little weight; AI crawlers, which mostly follow links, usually skip them entirely.
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Weakly linked pages
Pages with fewer than two internal links. One link is often an accident: an old blog post or a menu item about to disappear. We count followed links only and show separately how many come from the content rather than navigation or footer.
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Crawl depth
The number of clicks from your homepage to every page, computed as the shortest path through the link graph. Everything deeper than three clicks gets flagged: those pages get crawled less often and demonstrably rank harder.
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Strongest pages
An internal PageRank over the crawled graph (twenty iterations) shows which pages collect the most authority internally. Those are the places where a new link passes on the most.
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Link suggestions
For every orphan and weak page, the tool finds a strong page that does not link to it yet and matches it by section or topic. Concrete from-to pairs, not general advice.
Why it matters · the short version
Why internal links are the cheapest SEO win
Internal links are the only ranking factor you fully control.
Every internal link does two things at once: it passes authority from one page to another and tells crawlers which pages on your site matter. A page with no incoming links gets neither. However well written it is, to Google it is a loose fragment — and to the crawlers of ChatGPT and Perplexity, which read your site even more superficially, it often simply does not exist.
The problem creeps in. A campaign page that leaves the menu once the campaign ends, a blog archive that paginates after ten posts, a product category that loses its place in a redesign. Nobody deletes those pages; they just sink deeper and deeper. Past three clicks from the homepage, Google crawls a page noticeably less often, and you see that in the rankings.
The good news: fixing this rarely requires new content. You already have the strong pages; they just don't link to the weak ones. A handful of contextual links from the right place — a hub, a popular article, a service page — turns an orphan page into a normal part of your site. This check shows exactly which pairs those are.
Methodology · what is what
What we decide, measure and estimate
Every number in the result belongs to one of these three. The report itself says which, per item, so you know what to lean on.
Assessed by our decision model
A judgement with a probability behind it: certain, likely or uncertain. Not a fact, but traceable — the same input gives the same judgement, and the certainty is always shown.
Nothing: link structure can be counted, not judged.
Measured
What we literally fetched or counted: HTTP status, HTML, robots.txt, sitemaps, feeds and search results. If it is not there, we say so.
Every internal link we met during the crawl, with source, target, anchor text and click depth.
Estimated
Models and rules of thumb: search volumes, click rates, expected return. Good enough to prioritise with, not to budget on.
How much internal strength a page receives and which links would help most — a model, not a measurement.
Simulated. When no decision model, provider or cluster is available — or the daily ceiling for the free tools is reached — the tool keeps running on deterministic example data. That is labelled on every item it touches.
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