Finding orphan pages
Under “Statistics” you find the list of orphan pages: content that no other post points to. This is the most useful part of the plugin. A page without an incoming link is found reliably neither by a reader nor by a search engine — and it usually stands alone not because it is unimportant, but because nobody thought of it.
How to work through the list
- Run the calculation once under “Statistics”.
- Take the topmost orphan page and think about which post would mention it naturally.
- Enter the matching word as a keyword on the orphan page.
- Run the calculation again — the page leaves the list as soon as a word takes effect.
Only references from content are counted. A page in the menu is reachable, but still counts as orphaned here — the menu says nothing about how it is woven into the texts.
What else the statistics show
- Most-linked targets — which page gets the attention
- Busiest sources — which post passes it on
- Most effective keywords — which word actually takes effect
- All counted from the index, not estimated
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