Site has internal linking between pages

Search crawlers discover pages by following internal links from pages they already know. An orphaned page — one with no inbound link from anywhere else on the site — is invisible to the crawler unless it is listed in the sitemap, and even then it will rank poorly because PageRank flows through links. Internal links also pass anchor-text context that tells Google what a destination page is about; a homepage with no nav and no body links signals that the site has no content depth worth crawling.

Wire every route into a persistent navigation component and cross-link related pages in body content. Use next/link (or your framework's equivalent) so prefetching and client-side routing work correctly.

// components/Nav.tsx
import Link from 'next/link'
export function Nav() {
  return (
    <nav>
      <Link href="/">Home</Link>
      <Link href="/about">About</Link>
      <Link href="/pricing">Pricing</Link>
      <Link href="/docs">Docs</Link>
    </nav>
  )
}

For deep content trees, add a footer sitemap block so every page is reachable in at most two hops from the homepage.