Internal link audit for Next.js and React sites.

Next.js, React, Vue, and similar frameworks render much of the page in the browser. When done with server rendering or static generation, that's fine for SEO — the HTML arrives complete. But it's easy to ship routes where the meaningful content and internal links only appear after JavaScript executes. Search engines do render JavaScript, but not reliably or immediately, and anything that depends on user interaction to appear is effectively invisible to them.

The most common casualty is internal linking. A navigation or 'related content' block injected on the client can leave whole sections of a site unlinked from a crawler's point of view — the pages exist, but nothing a crawler follows points to them. RankForge fetches your pages and reports what's actually present in the crawled response, so you can see where rendering is hiding your structure.

If the links to a set of pages are only rendered client-side, those pages can become orphans in the eyes of search engines even though they're perfectly reachable for a human clicking through the app. This happens often with dynamically-generated routes, filtered list pages, and content loaded on scroll. The site feels complete; the crawlable link graph has holes.

A crawl that follows only what's in the delivered HTML reveals exactly which pages are cut off and which rendering choices are responsible — so you can move the critical links and content into the server-rendered output.

Make sure your important content and internal links are in the server-rendered or statically-generated HTML, not injected purely on the client. Then map the structure: reconnect pages that rendering has orphaned, strengthen the clusters around your key routes, and add the contextual links that route authority where it matters. RankForge flags the rendering gaps and prioritises the internal-linking fixes with exact placement.