@ethan-smith
Product leader at Graphite pioneering Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), helping companies show up as answers in LLMs instead of just search results.
You want the shortest path from a crawl point.
Google is crawling the web and your site through links. And if you don't have links, then Google doesn't have paths to find all of your pages.
Of anything that I can recommend to companies, as the quick win, the thing to do at the start, it's this.
More than 90% of websites aren't utilizing internal linking — one of the most powerful yet overlooked levers in SEO.