Can I use my WordPress XML sitemap instead of a Screaming Frog crawl?

[harry_g]

I don't have Screaming Frog. My WordPress site has an XML sitemap. Can I feed that to LinkJuice instead?

[anna_seo]

No — an XML sitemap only lists URLs, it has no link relationship data. LinkJuice needs to know which page links to which page (source → destination pairs). You need a link crawler like Screaming Frog (free up to 500 URLs) or Sitebulb for that.

[mark_t]

Screaming Frog free tier works well for small sites. If you're over 500 pages, the paid version is £149/year — worth it for SEO work.

[Noah]

Quick tip for anyone confused about orphans: filter out your pagination pages first (URLs with ?page= or /page/2/ patterns). These often show as orphans because the canonical points away from them, but they're not really missing links — they're just correctly de-indexed. Focus the orphan fix on unique content URLs only.

[Chris]

The redirect chain flag has been a goldmine for us. Found 847 internal links pointing to old redirect URLs after a CMS migration. Fixing those took two weeks but the crawl efficiency improvement was massive — Google started finding new content 3x faster based on our GSC coverage reports.