Comments on: SEO Terminology: Orphan and Dead-End Pages

By: Monker

Monker — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:10:49 +0000

Hi Miss Smarty,

I understand your pages fine, for the others I suggest they check out my SEO glossary : ), I admit orphans and dead-ends escaped my attention. Don’t these lost and forlorn pages find a home in supplemental purgatory in the end ?

By: Ann Smarty

Ann Smarty — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:25:49 +0000

@Andrea, so is it about visitors or crawlers? If that’s visitors you are doing that for, why wait until it’s indexed. Just do it :) No worries about Google – this way it won’t benefit your SEO but it won’t harm either, I guess.

By: Andrea Hill

Andrea Hill — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:05:13 +0000

@Ann I think it’s a good page to have simply to ensure there is a link to all content, somewhere. I’ve had my blog for 3 years, and have a TON of content.

I know an XML Sitemap meets some of these needs, but I believe there’s benefits to human site visitors as well.

By: Ann Smarty

Ann Smarty — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:07:37 +0000

@Andrea, why would you want to do that anyway? I mean if you consider the page to be not too useful why create it at all?

By: Andrea Hill

Andrea Hill — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:45:29 +0000

I arrived at this page because I was trying to find information on intentionally orphaning a page once it’s been indexed. I’ve created a sitemap page with links to everything on my site, but because it would have such negative page rank, I was planning to nofollow all links to it, once it has been indexed. Based on what you said about doorway pages, I’m assuming this is a BAD strategy? :)

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blu star web design services in tipperary, ireland — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:41:06 +0000

every page should have basic site links to prominent content in a navbar somewhere on each and every page unless there is good reason to not have such

By: Internet Blog

Internet Blog — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:58:39 +0000

To block pages you may create a robots.txt file or else you might also want to give instructions to the search bots from within the meta tags. Both solutions work :)

By: Raghavan

Raghavan — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:56:29 +0000

For dead end page I suggest blocking it from robots and orphan page I think redirection would be better

By: RayYong

RayYong — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:33:28 +0000

I could understand your page easily. Others find it difficult maybe they are not really in SEO.
Robots.txt and sitemap.xml are those file setup my webmaster to inform the Search Engine like Google to follow its search path easily.
Just think of its kind of simple map for Google to understand your “town-ship” layout.

By: quaden

quaden — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:16:02 +0000

yes, it is difficult to understand with me