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Every intended page is linked from another page

SEO-LINK-02C2 Recommended· w4

Class
C2 Recommended
Weight
4
Severity on fail
major
Applies to
Google

Scope and evidence

Evaluated on members of I other than home pages. The book marks this requirement DOCUMENTED RECOMMENDATION, SEARCH-ENGINE-SPECIFIC. It needs complete-crawl; without that input the rule reports as not evaluated rather than guessing.

Fail conditions

Each condition has a stable code and a reason template. The evaluator fills the placeholders from observed values only; no sentence in a report is generated.

  • orphan

    {url} is in {intent_source} but no crawled page links to it with a crawlable <a href>. Google recommends that every page you care about have a link from at least one other page on your site.

  • only_nofollow

    Every internal link to {url} carries nofollow ({n} links). Google says such links will generally not be followed, so these links may not help it discover the page.

The documented fix

Link the page from a hub, category or related-content block; keep internal links followed.

Sources, quoted

These are the passages the rule rests on, stored once in the knowledge base and emitted exactly as written. A citation marked for specific conditions appears only on findings with those codes.