Weak Internal Links
SkillSearchweak-internal-links is a skill for auditing site architecture. It scans websites with more than 20 pages and finds pages that are weakly linked, so weak internal linking can be fixed before it hurts search performance. It is useful when investigating why certain pages underperform in search or after a site migration.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Have a website with more than 20 pages to analyze.
Then ask your AI: use the Weak Internal Links skill
What your AI can do with it
- Finds weakly linked pages on websites over 20 pages
- Supports audits of site architecture
- Helps investigate why certain pages underperform in search
- Supports review of internal linking after a site migration
Getting started
- Have a website with more than 20 pages to analyze.
- Add the weak-internal-links skill to the agent's available skills.
- Ask the agent to audit the site's internal linking, investigate underperforming pages, or review the site after a migration.
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by thedaviddias/front-end-checklist in skills/weak-internal-links/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Internal links are how search engines discover pages and how PageRank flows through a site — pages with few internal links are effectively demoted in the crawl priority queue.
Quick Reference
- Pages with only 1 internal dofollow link are difficult for search engines to discover and poorly valued
- Internal links pass PageRank — more quality internal links to a page signal its importance
- Orphan pages (0 internal links) may not be crawled at all unless they are in the sitemap
- Important pages (money pages, cornerstone content) should have at least 3–5 internal links from relevant pages
Check
Crawl the site and build an internal link graph. Identify pages that: (1) receive 0 dofollow internal links (orphan pages), or (2) receive only 1 dofollow internal link. Cross-reference with performance data from Google Search Console to identify underperforming important pages.
Fix
For pages with weak internal linking: identify 3–5 topically relevant pages on the site and add contextual internal links from those pages to the underlinked page. Use descriptive, keyword-relevant anchor text. Prioritize linking from high-authority pages (homepage, cornerstone content).
Explain
Explain how internal links distribute PageRank across a site, why orphan and weakly-linked pages are harder to discover and rank, and how to build a deliberate internal linking strategy based on content hierarchy.
Code Review
Review metadata generation, rendered HTML, structured data, and response headers related to Weak Internal Links. Flag exact routes or templates where search-facing output violates the rule, and describe how to verify the final page output.
For full implementation details, code examples, and framework-specific guidance,
see references/rule.md.
Rule page: https://frontendchecklist.io/en/rules/seo/weak-internal-links
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 74k
- Forks
- 7k
- Last commit
- Aug 2026
Questions
- When should this skill be used?
- Use it on any site with more than 20 pages, when auditing site architecture, investigating why certain pages underperform in search, or after a site migration.
- What does the skill actually find?
- It finds weakly linked pages on websites over 20 pages, pointing out where internal linking is poor so it can be fixed.
- Does it work on small websites?
- It applies to sites with more than 20 pages; smaller sites are outside its intended use.
Advanced
- Item type
- skill
- Key
weak-internal-links- Source
- github.com/thedaviddias/front-end-checklist