Orphan Pages

Find published Shopify pages with no internal links pointing at them, so you can recover their search visibility.

Orphan Pages An orphan page is a published page that no other page on your store links to. With no internal links pointing at it, search engines struggle to discover and rank it, and shoppers can only reach it by knowing the exact URL. Orphan Pages crawls your storefront, maps the internal links between your pages, and lists the ones nothing links to — so you can add a link from a relevant collection or page and recover their visibility. How it works Click 'Run scan'. The tool discovers your published pages from your sitemap (skipping the files it lists for AI agents), visits each page and records the internal links it points to, and checks which published collection lists each product. It visits about two pages a second, so your store stays fast for shoppers and doesn't block the scan; a store with a thousand pages takes about ten minutes. In the app, H1, Orphan Pages, Broken Links and Schema scans run one at a time for each store, so they wait their turn. The scan runs on QueryCatch's servers, so it keeps going if you leave the page or close the app, and the results are here when you come back.. When the crawl finishes, it works out which published URLs received no internal link — those are your orphans.. Review the results: a score (the share of pages that ARE internally linked), a funnel you can click to filter to Orphaned or Linked, and a searchable table of every page with its type and status.. Open any orphan and add a link to it from a relevant collection description, page or blog post — then re-run the scan to confirm it's no longer orphaned. /assets/documentation/orphan-pages/scan-running.webp /assets/documentation/orphan-pages/overview.webp /assets/documentation/orphan-pages/page-list.webp Orphan status is only known once the whole crawl finishes (a page is an orphan only if NOTHING links to it), so results appear when the run completes rather than streaming in. Your last completed crawl shows instantly the next time you open the tool. Accuracy: treat results as "likely orphaned" The crawl reads each page's HTML. Collections and blogs show their products and articles a page at a time, so a product in a published collection, or an article in a published blog, counts as linked even when it sits on a later page of the list. Some themes add navigation links with JavaScript (mega-menus). Those links aren't visible to an HTML crawl, so a page linked only that way can show up as orphaned. Treat the list as "likely orphaned, worth checking" — open a flagged page and confirm before acting. Links inside JavaScript-rendered menus may not be seen.. Products and articles count as linked when a published collection or blog lists them, on any page of the list.. Pages your storefront couldn't serve during the crawl (password-protected, temporarily down) still appear in the list, but the links on them aren't counted.. Large catalogues are capped to keep crawls fast — the tool tells you when a cap was hit. Requirements A connected Shopify store with a public (not password-protected) storefront. Essential plan or above — bundled with H1 Health as a storefront-crawl tool. Available inside the Shopify admin as an embedded app