{"pageUrl":"https://promagen.com/how-to-fix-orphan-pages-for-ai-discovery","lastModified":"2026-05-10","provenanceHash":"sha256:489b40f76413760f55f081a1f4c5bca719e5a9937ae6d1a2a6bae7322a385b3f","provenanceNote":"Three-inbound-link threshold reflects Promagen Sentinel's orphan-risk component as defined in HEALTH_WEIGHTS (frontend/src/types/sentinel.ts). The orphan-risk component contributes 10% of the composite Sentinel score.","claims":[{"id":"claim-three-link-threshold","statement":"Promagen Sentinel defines an orphan page as a page with fewer than three inbound internal links from other pages on the same site. This threshold is the basis for the orphan-risk component (10% of the composite score).","evidenceUrl":"https://promagen.com/sentinel/weekly","lastVerified":"2026-05-10","hash":"sha256:60a5a6e7b1b0c47d7029c8f01d93707a969f4143735a4514d3a8de9b1219b920"},{"id":"claim-sitemap-not-inbound-link","statement":"Sitemaps and llms.txt do not count as inbound links for orphan-risk purposes. Both are discovery aids, not navigation; AI engine retrieval ranking weights navigation reachability separately from sitemap presence.","evidenceUrl":"https://promagen.com/sentinel/weekly","lastVerified":"2026-05-10","hash":"sha256:d1f572b01820110e25f2c9d0b5bfdce603444cf16bf9d0e7db8fe1fcf41355f2"},{"id":"claim-vaillant-deliberate-orphan","statement":"Some pages are deliberate orphans by design (e.g. Promagen's /vaillant-cooling-resistor is documented as off-brand orphan in its source code). Intentional orphans should be documented so they are not \"fixed\" by future engineers.","evidenceUrl":"https://promagen.com/vaillant-cooling-resistor","lastVerified":"2026-05-10","hash":"sha256:d5e473c4006456504fb0d62dd2fd577d282200ec63420e922ee47c394f86d1fc"}]}