Step 3 Identify Money Pages and Orphan Pages

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Mark the revenue-driving pages that need internal-link support and the orphan pages that need connecting, producing the prioritized source-to-target link plan that Step 4 executes.

Category: SEO & Content Architecture

Use this when the inventory (Step 1) and taxonomy (Step 2) are clean, and it is time to decide where links should flow before creating any.

Inputs

  • The Step 1 inventory with GCT, tree roles, and links-in/out per URL
  • Knowledge of what actually drives revenue: services, courses, lead capture
  • Crawl or LinkWhisper inlink data

Steps

  1. From the inventory, mark the money pages – the pages that drive revenue: service pages, course pages, lead-capture pages, key conversion paths.
  2. Mark the orphan pages – every URL with zero internal links pointing to it.
  3. Rank money pages by gap: which carry the most revenue weight with the least internal-link support.
  4. For each money page, list the leaves and branches topically qualified to send it a link – use each candidate's GCT as the relevance test; no relevance, no link.
  5. Give every orphan a disposition: becomes a linking source for a money page, gets connected to its branch, or goes to the consolidation skills (thin/duplicate).
  6. Output two prioritized lists – "money pages needing links" and "orphans needing homes" – as the direct input to Step 4.

Definition of done (QA checklist)

  • Every money page identified and ranked by link-support gap
  • Every orphan identified with a named disposition
  • Source → target link plan drafted with GCT-based relevance justifications
  • Both lists handed to Step 4 in priority order
  • Linked back to the definitive article (/internal-linking) and relevant siblings

Example(s)

  • The /internal-linking definitive article shows this money-page/orphan analysis as its Step 3 on blitzmetrics.com.
  • Example needed – run the Meta-Article Prompt (/meta-article-prompt-template) after the next link-planning round.

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