thanks for that. They said this is their strategy, and they will update the links in a month. I can't see any sense in that and it looks like they have just messed up

Hi, we outsourced our SEO to a team we're and not sure they are doing things right.

They created four service pages off the home page (I am happy that is the right thing to do), but they didn't update the links from the home page to these new service pages. They only updated the location of the new pages in GSC, and they were indexed from domain/wp-sitemap-posts-page-1.xml

What is standard SEO practice? Should they have updated the home page links so users could find the new service pages, or just update GSC?

Thanks in advance for experienced answers