---
title: "Internal Linking Analysis"
description: "Map how your pages connect, surface orphans and dead-end hubs, and get the exact internal links to add, with anchor text and placement."
url: "https://rankbuddy.io/features/internal-linking"
product: "RankBuddy"
category: "Audit & Optimize"
---

# Internal Linking

Map how your pages actually connect, surface the orphans and the hubs that lead nowhere, and get the specific internal links to add — with the anchor text and the page to add them on.

## Ask it like this

- Map hub-and-spoke structure from my sitemap
- Find orphan page candidates
- Suggest internal links for my main hubs

## What you get

### The real link graph

How your pages actually connect, crawled rather than assumed — which is usually not the structure the navigation implies.

### Orphans and dead ends

Pages nothing links to, and hubs that collect authority and pass none of it on. Both are silent, and both are cheap to fix.

### Specific links to add

The source page, the target page and the anchor text — a list you can work through, not a diagram to interpret.

## How it works

1. **Connect your website** — One workspace per site. It crawls what you have, learns what the business does, and — if you connect Google Search Console — starts from your own measured performance rather than from market averages.
2. **Ask for the job** — Pick the skill or let Auto route it, and describe what you want in a sentence. It buys the data it needs from DataForSEO and Ahrefs instead of estimating it, and reads the live results for the terms in question.
3. **Review, then decide** — The findings land in chat and are saved to the project, so the next question builds on them. Nothing reaches your site unless you approve it — the only thing that can publish is an article, to a CMS you connected.

## Where the data comes from

- Live crawl of your internal link graph
- Your XML sitemap
- Google Search Console

## Frequently asked questions

### What counts as an orphan page?

A page reachable in your sitemap but with no internal link pointing at it from anywhere else on the site. Search engines find it, then treat it as unimportant, because nothing on your own site vouches for it.

### Does it understand topic clusters?

Yes. It maps hub-and-spoke structure — the pillar page and the articles that should support it — and flags spokes that never link back to their hub, which is the most common way a cluster fails to work.

### Will it add the links automatically?

No. It produces the list, with the exact anchor text and placement, and you apply it. New articles it drafts for you do include internal links to your existing pages from the start.

## Related features

- [Technical SEO Audit](https://rankbuddy.io/features/technical-seo-audit) — Crawl, indexing and a prioritized fix list.
- [On-Page SEO](https://rankbuddy.io/features/on-page-seo) — Rewrite one page to win one keyword.
- [Broken Link Checker](https://rankbuddy.io/features/broken-link-checker) — Catch 404s before your visitors do.
- [Keyword Research](https://rankbuddy.io/features/keyword-research) — Real search volumes, ranked by opportunity.
- [Competitor Analysis](https://rankbuddy.io/features/competitor-analysis) — See who ranks, and exactly why.
- [Backlink Analysis](https://rankbuddy.io/features/backlink-analysis) — Your link profile, and the gaps in it.

See every feature at https://rankbuddy.io/features, pricing at https://rankbuddy.io/pricing.