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How To Find Orphan Pages Using The SEO Spider

An orphaned page is a webpage that is not linked to internally. So it can’t be found by either a user browsing or discovered by a search engine crawling the internal links of the website alone.

Why Are They Important?

Finding orphan pages is useful because it can help identify areas of a site or important pages that have no internal links. This can obviously be an issue for users, and discovery and indexing of the pages by search engines.

Orphan pages might still be indexed due to being linked to historically or from other sources (like XML Sitemaps, or external links for example), but without any internal links, they won’t be passed internal PageRank, which will impact their scoring and organic performance in the search engines.

How to use the Screaming Frog SEO Spider to find orphan pages

The Screaming Frog SEO Spider to find orphan pages from three sources, XML Sitemaps, Google Analytics, and Search Console.

Note: To crawl the whole website and open up the configuration to integrate with the three sources, an SEO Spider licence is required.

XML Sitemaps:

1. Open Screaming Frog tool

2. Go to menu "Configuration" > Spider > XML Sitemaps

3. select "Crawl Linked XML Sitemaps"

4.  select "Crawl These Sitemaps:  (this requires a ‘Sitemap: https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml entry), or supply the destination of the XML Sitemap. This means any new orphan URLs only discoverable via the XML Sitemap will be crawled.

5. Type or copy in the website to crawl in the ‘Enter URL to spider’ box and hit ‘Start’.

6. Export Combined Orphan URLs report if you wish to export a combined list of all orphan pages discovered after finish crawling site.

The guide above should help illustrate the simple steps required to find orphan pages using the SEO Spider. For more sources to find orphan pages by  integrated Google Analytics and Search Console Google Analytics you can go to visit Screaming user guide.

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Check if my site/URLs are indexed on Google (Use Search Console)

 How to use Google Search Console to check whether a specific page/url is indexed.

1. Log into the gmail account that you use to manage this websites profile
2. Log into Google Search Console.
   1. Scroll down until you get a “Start Now” blue button in the top right 
   2. Click Start now (you may have login again BUT check if you are working with the right gmail account on this profile.) 
   3. Go to “URL inspection” in the left menu. 
   4. Copy the URL you’d like indexed and enter it into the search field. 
   5. If that page is indexed, it’ll say “URL is on Google.” 
      
      
      
   6. If the page isn’t indexed, you’ll see the words “URL is not on Google.”
      
      
      
3. How to get indexed by Google for “URL is not on Google.”
1. Click the “Request indexing” button (bottom right)
2. Wait for Google to check the URL
3. Google now tests the URL to see if it can be indexed, Click “GOT IT” to exit

These instructions are for new pages (or updated pages) that you want indexing quickly.

BUT

…you can only submit 50 URLs for indexing per day.

Further details on our Check if my site/URLs are indexed on Google (Use Search Console)

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How to Use Free Stock Photo Resources

Finding the right image is always a challenge and if you want to find a great image for free it becomes an even bigger challenge! Of course, if you have your own equipment and a flare for photography consider producing your own imagery.

We’ve listed here the best free stock photo resources with the type of Creative Commons license and whether they require attribution.

Image Licenses – Creative Commons and Public Domain

There is a myriad of information about licences, but the most popular ones are Creative Commons and Public Domain licenses.

A Creative Commons license only applies to images protected by copyright and communicates how the image can be used There may be restrictions on how you can use the image.

A Public Domain license is free for use for anyone on the Internet so the image is unrestricted. An image that is in the public domain can be declared using CCO, which means “no copyright reserved.”

Already have an image in mind?

You will need to check whether you can use the image. To do this go to How to check copyright on images.

Imagery Sources

Here are some of our favourite sources for imagery.

123RF

Attribution: Some imagery

License : CC variable

• A stock content provider. Some photos are free, but for limited sizes.
• Our View: Wide range of categories and option to subscribe for larger sizes.

Albumarium

Attribution: Required

License : CC 2.0

• Beautiful imagery with a useful list of popular albums.
• Our View: Easy to use interface.

Avopix

Attribution: Not Required

License: CCO

• Free stock photos, videos and illustrations.
• Our View: A great bank of images. Easy to navigate and no sign up needed.

BucketListly Photos

Attribution: Not Required

License: CCO

• An extensive traveller with a talent for taking photos.
• Our View: It’s a great way to travel the world. Amazing free imagery for travel websites.

Burst

Attribution: Not Required

License: CC Varies

• Shopify have created Burst. This is a free stock photography website for websites and commercial use.
• Our View:  Great photos, just make sure you don’t get sucked into having a shopify website.

Dreamstime

Attribution: Not Required

License: CCO

• 69 million stock images and 19 million users.
• Our View: No sign up needed and easy to use.

FindA.Photo

Attribution: Not Required

License CCO

• 10,000 free stock photos.
• Our View: Basic site. Search by keyword or by colour.

Other Sites

There are many other sites which provide imagery.

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How to check copyright on images?

If an image is copyrighted, How to check?

We sugguest TinEye image search engine. It is a great tool for identifying where images are used on the web.

Follow Five step to verify an image and identify the copyright owner.

    1. Go to "tineye.com"

    2. Enter the image URL OR upload the image.

    3. Tineye will now review where else on the web the image is used.

    4. Review the URL of the site that the photo is displayed on.

    5. If it is a photo library, news or stock photo site then do not use. If the image is on a range of misc sites then try and find the source and pass credit as necessary.

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