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Internal linking tool: no orphan page left behind.

Mentionova reads your sitemap, crawls the links between your pages and finds the ones nothing points to. For each, it suggests the page to link from, the anchor and the exact sentence, and stages them for your review.

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NorthPay's sitemap: 212 pages crawled, 14 orphans found, 38 links suggested and staged for review.

The problem

New posts go live orphaned.Nothing links to them.

You publish hundreds of pages and link between them by hand, when someone remembers. Older guides never get linked from the pages that matter, and the link audit is always next quarter's project.

One sitemap run

Fourteen orphans. Every one linked in.

One run of the linking workflow on northpay.com: the crawl, the pages nothing links to, and a suggested link into each from the hub on its topic.

05 · Placed through your CMS, confirmed on the next crawl.

orchestrationchargebackscheckoutcompliance

212 pages0 orphans38 links suggested

placed through your CMS · confirmed on the next crawl

How it works

Crawl. Suggest. Review.

  1. 01 · Crawl

    Read the sitemap

    Point it at your sitemap. It reads every page and maps the links between them, then flags the pages nothing links to, grouped by topic.

    Crawl · northpay.com
    • /sitemap.xml read212 pages
    • Internal links between themmapped
    • Pages with no links in14 orphans
    • Orphans grouped by topic4 topics

    chargebacks · orchestration · checkout · compliance

  2. 02 · Suggest

    Suggest a link into each

    Every orphan gets a suggested link from a page on its topic: the source page, the anchor, and the sentence the link belongs in, under your cap on new links per page.

    38 suggestions · staged
    • “routing rules” → /blog/payment-routing-rulesstaged
    • “reason code” → /blog/chargeback-reason-codesstaged
    • “local payment methods” → /blog/local-methodsstaged
    • “tokenization” → /blog/tokenization-basicsstaged
    • “3D Secure 2” → /blog/3ds2-explainedstaged
    • “chargeback rate” → /blog/chargeback-ratestaged

    source page · anchor · sentence, for every link

  3. 03 · Review

    Your team reviews every one

    Suggestions arrive as a checklist. Your team reviews each one and places the links through your own CMS; nothing changes on the site from the tool.

    Suggestion 1 of 38
    • Source: /guides/payment-orchestration
    • Anchor: “routing rules”
    • Target: /blog/payment-routing-rules, an orphan
    • Sentence: “Most teams start with a few routing rules and add failover later.”
    • Cap: 1 of 3 new links used on this page

    review · edit · skip — nothing is published from the tool

Schedule

Runs as a workflow, every week.

The linking tool runs as a Mentionova workflow, like every automation in the product: a trigger, the steps, and your team's review before anything changes. On a weekly schedule, each run re-reads the sitemap, so pages published since the last run get their links suggested within the week.

  • Re-reads the sitemap every run
  • New pages picked up on their own
  • Your team reviews before anything changes

workflow · weekly

Internal linking · weekly
  • Trigger · every Mondayweekly
  • Read sitemap · crawl links212 pages
  • Find orphans · group by topic14 found
  • Suggest links · cap 3 per page38 staged
  • Review · your teamwaiting

next run re-reads the sitemap and confirms placed links

In the example above · one sitemap run

212
pages crawled

Every page in the sitemap, and the links between them.

14
orphans found

Pages no other page links to.

38
links suggested

Each with a source page, an anchor and a sentence.

Scalable SEO boosted our visibility and helped fuel our pipeline and user acquisition. Analytical, with a strong strategic mindset.
Tim WuCMO, Resolve

Internal Linking · FAQ

Questions, answered.

An internal linking tool finds the links missing between pages on your own site and suggests where to add them. Mentionova's reads your sitemap, crawls the links you already have, and flags orphan pages that nothing links to, plus pages with too few links in. For each one it proposes a source page, an anchor and the sentence the link belongs in. You review the suggestions and decide which go live, so the structure improves without a manual audit.

AI internal linking uses a language model to read your pages the way an editor would and decide where a link helps the reader. Instead of matching keywords, it looks for a sentence on a related page that already talks about the destination's topic, then links the words that describe it. The result is an anchor that fits the paragraph. Mentionova stages every suggestion for human review, so an editor still makes the final call.

An orphan page is a page on your site that no other page links to. Crawlers mostly discover pages by following links, so an orphan can go unfound or rarely recrawled even when it's your best guide on the topic. Internal links also signal which pages matter and how they relate to each other. Linking orphans from relevant pages that already get traffic is one of the simplest structural fixes a site can make.

Yes, and it goes a step further. As an internal link checker it crawls your sitemap, maps every internal link, and flags orphan pages and pages with too few links in. Where most checkers stop at the report, Mentionova suggests the fix: the source page, the anchor and the sentence for each new link, staged for your review.

It reads the source page, finds a sentence that already talks about the destination's topic, and links the words in that sentence that describe the destination. That keeps anchors varied and natural instead of repeating one exact-match phrase. You see the full sentence with the proposed anchor highlighted before you approve anything.

No. Every suggestion is staged for review with its source page, anchor and sentence, and someone on your team approves it before anything changes on your site. You set the rules too, including the maximum number of new links per page, so a run never floods a single article with links.

Run it whenever you publish in volume, or put it on a weekly schedule. Mentionova's internal linking runs as a workflow, so it can re-read your sitemap every week and suggest links for pages published since the last run. That is what keeps new posts from staying orphaned for months.

Your sitemap. The workflow pulls every page listed there, crawls the internal links between them and works from what it finds. The first run returns the full list of orphan pages and a first batch of suggested links, each with its source page, anchor and sentence, ready to review.

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Link the pagesnobody links to.

Point Mentionova at your sitemap. The first run finds your orphan pages and drafts the links, each one waiting for your approval.