Timeline for Ahrefs reports that new blog posts are "orphan pages"
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| Jan 9, 2020 at 5:44 | comment | added | Olivia | Thank you for the clarification. I have updated the blog category and category tag pages (noindex, follow), but it is still showing the same errors. I have attached another screenshot above, please have a look and do let me know how can I fix these error? | |
| Jan 9, 2020 at 5:40 | history | edited | Olivia | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 8, 2020 at 15:48 | answer | added | Evgeniy | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 20:28 | comment | added | Mnea | I don't see a reason why you would disable categories. There should be some way that your blog posts are grouped together. By grouping them into categories, you would allow SEs to better understand your blog structure, and reduce the "click depth", and then those pages will not be seen as orphans. What you can do is, add "noindex" to your category pages, if you are scared of duplicate content. | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 13:08 | comment | added | Stephen Ostermiller♦ | Site maps are not the same as links. You'll actually need to create links to the pages not just create site maps. See The Sitemap Paradox | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 12:45 | history | edited | John Conde♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 7, 2020 at 12:34 | comment | added | Olivia | How can I fix these issues? What if I generate a new XML sitemap for the blog and add the sitemap to the main XML sitemap. Will that issue be solved? Please tell me ! | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 12:27 | comment | added | Olivia | Yes, I have disabled category, tagging and some features in WordPress because to avoid duplication. | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 12:11 | comment | added | Stephen Ostermiller♦ | I'm surprised to hear that this could be a problem with a WordPress blog. WordPress usually links new posts from the blog home screen. WordPress also uses categories and tagging that create places that all posts get links. Have you disabled all those features or something? | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 12:10 | history | edited | Stephen Ostermiller♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 7, 2020 at 12:07 | comment | added | Stephen Ostermiller♦ | Sitemaps don't help that much with orphan pages. Including them in a sitemap will get them crawled but search engines usually choose not to index orphan pages. Even when they are indexed, they tend not to rank well. See The Sitemap Paradox | |
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| Jan 7, 2020 at 11:59 | history | asked | Olivia | CC BY-SA 4.0 |