vamsibhogaraju/orphan_finder

I have developed this using Python, flask and pyvis . https://github.com/vamsibhogaraju

What are Orphan pages?

Orphan pages are website pages that are not linked to from any other page or section of your site. This means a user cannot access the page without knowing the direct URL. Additionally, these pages can't be followed from another page by search engine crawlers, which means they are rarely indexed by search engines.

Why are orphaned pages bad?

• Low Rankings & Traffic: Even if they contain great content, orphan pages typically don’t rank well in SERPs or get much organic search traffic.
• They might deliver old content that you don’t want on your website and want to remove from your sitemap file, so as not to confuse both users and crawlers.
• They are useful and people keep visiting them via backlinks, but these pages miss out on the opportunity to receive enough traffic and link juice. If you add internal links to them, they will perform much better.
• They might be orphaned accidentally during a website migration. Determining if existing pages are still getting internal links is crucial.

Inputes askes after running the api

• Path of the project (project path you want to find the orphan pages)
• Path of the entry page of your Project.(example: Homepage.html or Homepage.jsp; starting page where every page is interlinked)
• Name of the entry page.
• Path where files need to be saved. (.csv and .html files are generated)

About Pyvis.

The pyvis library is meant for quick generation of visual network graphs with minimal python code. It is designed as a wrapper around the popular JavaScript and visJS.Pyvis generates .html for visualizing the graph.

• Pyvis link https://pyvis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html

orphan_finder's Issues

Don't know how to use the application!

Once the application is cloned and built locally, it is not apparent what values to enter and in what format.

Could examples for each of the required fields kindly be provided?

These examples should work on an existing web site.

Much appreciated. Thanks.