Do orphaned pages hurt SEO?
Orphan pages cause two main SEO problems: Low Rankings & Traffic: Even if they contain great content, orphan pages typically don't rank well in SERPs or get much organic search traffic. Crawl Waste: Low-value orphan pages (e.g. duplicate pages) can be stealing crawl budget from your important pages.
What is an orphaned page?
Orphan pages are pages of a website where no link is leading to it. An orphan page is in complete isolation in this way, meaning that the only way someone can visit this page is by typing in the direct link.
What is orphaned pages in Google Analytics?
Orphaned pages in Google Analytics are similar to another issue that you may have come across such as portion pages and insight maps. It's a similar yet slightly different issue. What an orphan page means is that you have a page on your website that is still live but that page is not linked to the rest of your website.