Publishing a page at an accessible address does not establish that it is well integrated into the website. It can appear in a sitemap yet remain disconnected from the pages readers use to navigate a subject. An internal-link review examines architecture and context rather than adding the same link block everywhere.

Start with the reader's journey

Choose an important URL and ask where someone would expect to find it. Should a broad guide lead to this tutorial? Does a service page need a supporting explanation? Does a category actually collect the content it promises?

Document missing journeys. This gives each proposed link an editorial reason instead of imposing an arbitrary number of links per article.

Google recommends crawlable links with defined destinations and descriptive text in its link guidance. Inspect the HTML and confirm that the destination is the intended version without an unnecessary redirect chain.

A button that only runs a JavaScript action does not always serve the same purpose as a link to a URL. Review broken destinations and references to older versions after a reorganization.

Investigate potential orphan pages carefully

Compare known URLs with those discovered by following internal links. If an address is absent, check the audit's coverage before declaring it orphaned. Access, depth or rendering limitations in the crawling tool may explain the omission.

Reindexa does not replace an architecture crawler. Its monitored URLs can provide a starting set, supplemented by a separate internal-link audit.

An editorial example

Imagine an advanced guide linked only from an old article. The team creates a topic overview and realizes that the guide answers a common follow-up question. A contextual link from the overview creates a useful path and makes the relationship between the resources clearer.

It does not establish that Google will index the guide. Record the intervention and inspect the URL later. If the content is rewritten as well, document both changes rather than crediting the outcome to one alone.

Give the team an actionable handoff

List the source page, destination, reason for the link, proposed anchor text and owner. Prioritize helpful journeys and fix inconsistencies before deploying large-scale link additions.

Use inspection history to review subsequent observations. A good report describes the architecture improvement and its follow-up without presenting a useful practice as an indexing guarantee.

Sources and review

Documentation checked on September 8, 2026. Workflows and examples are editorial proposals from Reindexa, not guarantees of results.
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