In WordPress, open SEO > Links. Use the link index to find pages nothing links to, and the editor's suggestions to link them.
Tabs on this screen
- Overview — guide: https://zinnseo.com/kb/find-orphan-pages-and-add-internal-links
- Orphans — guide: https://zinnseo.com/kb/find-orphan-pages-and-add-internal-links
- Dead ends — guide: https://zinnseo.com/kb/find-orphan-pages-and-add-internal-links
- Link rules — guide: https://zinnseo.com/kb/find-orphan-pages-and-add-internal-links
- Automatic links — guide: https://zinnseo.com/kb/find-orphan-pages-and-add-internal-links
- Broken links — guide: https://zinnseo.com/kb/find-orphan-pages-and-add-internal-links
- Breadcrumbs — guide: https://zinnseo.com/kb/find-orphan-pages-and-add-internal-links
- Link updates — guide: https://zinnseo.com/kb/find-orphan-pages-and-add-internal-links
Settings on this screen
- Autolinks max (Pro)
- Autolinks on (Pro)
- E-mail the site administrator when new broken links are found (Pro)
- Check every link once a week (Pro)
- A page that is not found
- An author or date archive
- Crumb compat
- Date archives
- Name of the home page
- Page 2 and on of a list
- Words before the trail
- A content type's archive
- Search results
- Separator
- Show a content type’s archive in its items’ trail
- Taxonomies whose trail runs through their content type’s archive
- A category or tag
- Taxonomies whose terms keep their plain name
- Crumb types
- Update internal links when an address changes (under Automatic)
- Open links to other sites in a new tab
- Every link to another site
- Rules for particular sites and paths
Step by step
The guide with screenshots: https://zinnseo.com/kb/find-orphan-pages-and-add-internal-links
With an AI agent
An AI app connected to the site through MCP does the same with: build-link-index, build-semantic-index, check-broken-links, fix-broken-link, get-autolinks, get-link-updates, get-links-summary, get-semantic-links.