orphan page
A page no internal link points to.
What orphan page does not show
Findable by a crawler only if it is declared in a sitemap, and findable by nobody if it is in neither.
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Related terms in Indexing and discovery
Whether a page can be found and kept, separately from whether it can be fetched.
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Questions about orphan page
What is orphan page?
A page no internal link points to.
What does orphan page not show or guarantee?
Findable by a crawler only if it is declared in a sitemap, and findable by nobody if it is in neither.
Which area of the glossary does orphan page belong to?
Indexing and discovery: Whether a page can be found and kept, separately from whether it can be fetched.
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