dead-end-pages
Installation
SKILL.md
Add outgoing links to dead-end pages
Googlebot follows links to discover and re-crawl pages. A page with no outgoing internal links stops the crawler from reaching the rest of your site from that point and leaves users with nowhere logical to go, increasing bounce rate.
Quick Reference
- Every page should link to at least 2–3 contextually relevant internal pages to aid navigation and crawling
- Pages with zero outgoing links trap crawlers and users, forming dead ends in your site's link graph
- Contextual inline links (within body content) pass more value than footer or navigation links alone
Check
For each page, count the number of <a href> links pointing to other pages on the same domain (exclude navigation/header/footer if they are templated identically across all pages). Flag any page with zero or fewer than two unique internal links in the main content body (<main> or <article> element).