An orphan article has no useful internal route leading to it. New posts can become effectively hidden when a site relies on search filters, a sitemap, or a release announcement as the only discovery path.
What to inspect
- List every published article from the content source.
- Collect ordinary links from the blog index, topic hubs, and articles.
- Flag pages with no incoming editorial link.
- Add a link from the closest relevant guide or improve the topic overview.
A page can load perfectly when you paste its URL and still be hard to discover. The test is whether a reader starting at the site can reach it through meaningful navigation.
A check you can run
Start at the blog with JavaScript disabled. Reach a recently added article through a topic page, then follow its related reading back into the library.
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