What is an orphaned page?
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Correct answer: An orphaned page is a page on a website that has no internal links.
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An orphaned page is a page on a website that has no internal links pointing to it. This means search engine crawlers cannot easily discover it by following links from other pages on the site, and users cannot navigate to it through the website's structure. While it might still be indexed if linked externally or submitted via a sitemap, its discoverability and authority suffer without internal links. The other options are incorrect: A page not included in XML sitemaps is not necessarily orphaned if it has internal links. An orphaned page specifically refers to the lack of internal links; it may still have external links. A page blocked from search engines (e.g., via robots.txt) is intentionally hidden, not necessarily orphaned, and its discoverability is restricted by design.
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