30 checks in Crawlability & Site Architecture. Automated Its subsection has a live automated checker in the engine.
| ID | Check | Passes when |
|---|---|---|
| 2.9.01 | Cross-reference sitemap URLs against internal link graph | All sitemap URLs internally linked |
| 2.9.02 | Cross-reference GSC indexed URLs against internal link graph | All indexed URLs internally linked |
| 2.9.03 | Identify orphan pages receiving organic traffic (GSC data) | Prioritize for re-linking |
| 2.9.04 | Identify orphan pages with backlinks from external sources | Prioritize for re-linking |
| 2.9.05 | Classify orphan pages by type (service, blog, location, legal, media) | Classified |
| 2.9.06 | Classify orphan pages by content quality (thin vs substantial) | Classified |
| 2.9.07 | Recommend action per orphan: relink, redirect, noindex, or delete | Action assigned |
| 2.9.08 | Identify the best parent page for each recoverable orphan | Parent identified |
| 2.9.09 | Validate recovered orphans are topically related to suggested parent | Related |
| 2.9.10 | Identify orphan pages created by CMS drafts published accidentally | Flagged |
| 2.9.11 | Identify orphan pages from old site versions (pre-migration remnants) | Flagged |
| 2.9.12 | Validate no orphan pages exist in XML sitemap | Sitemap clean |
| 2.9.13 | Validate no orphan pages are being crawled by Googlebot (server logs) | Minimal crawl waste |
| 2.9.14 | Detect orphan pages with canonical tags pointing to live pages | Redirect instead |
| 2.9.15 | Detect orphan pages returning 200 that should return 404 or 301 | Correct status |
| 2.9.16 | Validate orphan recovery does not create redirect loops | Clean redirects |
| 2.9.17 | Validate orphan recovery does not create duplicate content | Unique |
| 2.9.18 | Detect orphan pages with structured data (wasted schema) | Recover or remove schema |
| 2.9.19 | Detect orphan pages ranking for keywords (GSC impressions > 0) | Critical recovery candidates |
| 2.9.20 | Calculate total crawl budget wasted on orphan pages | < 5% of total |
| 2.9.21 | Validate robots.txt does not accidentally block links to orphans | Not blocked |
| 2.9.22 | Validate orphan pages are not receiving paid traffic (wasted ad spend) | None |
| 2.9.23 | Detect orphan pages created by URL parameter variations | Canonicalize or block |
| 2.9.24 | Detect orphan pages from A/B testing remnants | Cleaned up |
| 2.9.25 | Generate orphan recovery priority list (sorted by traffic potential) | Prioritized |
| 2.9.26 | Validate orphan recovery plan does not exceed 50 actions per scan | Manageable |
| 2.9.27 | Track orphan count across scans (trend monitoring) | Declining or stable |
| 2.9.28 | Validate internal search results do not link to orphan pages | Clean search |
| 2.9.29 | Detect orphan pages linked from external sites but not internally | Add internal links |
| 2.9.30 | Compute Orphan Page Recovery Score | Finalized |
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