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Yes! - the same goes with support sites on different domains (support.whatever.com or whatever.zendesk.com etc) that appear in google results and don't have a link to the company.

I think this is a result of app stores enforcing links to external digital products thing. That's why all these support pages which need to be linked from app, don't have a single link to main site.

I had no problems navigating there. Every single link in the hamburger lead me to polyhaven.com

To the polyhaven.com home page? I don't think it did. They are all sub pages which adds another navigation step to see the root page, which is what I find irritating.

Not having a link forces people to navigate to the page on their own. For a lot of people that takes the form of a Google search. Lots of people googling specifically for your brand increases your search rankings.

Or so goes the theory anyway.