Open Site Explorer, Which is the right link number?
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Hi SEOMozers,
I am trying to check a record of links to one of the websites I help look after. One problem with the site is the home page automatically redirects to /home which seems to make OSE give some weird results.
I can give out the domain if need be but I would rather not if I can help it To sum up what's happening when you put the domain into OSE with the /home then I get the social figures but the link number is right out saying the site has 200 links.
Typing in the domain without the /home brings up no social figures and 15k links which looks more correct. Also OSE has the notification about the redirect and if I'd like to go to the /home version.
The weird thing is however is if I change the filter to 'Pages on this root domain' which should show all links pointing to the website, the figures don't change...?
Has anyone experienced this? Any solutions? Or is it a known bug?
Cheers for any help in advance!
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Wait a tick, solved it now. I'm sure the stats at the top used to display the settings you've specified. Appears it onyl display that exact page now!
The metrics I was after now display directly under the filter options... Massive D'oh moment by myself...
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I know that, it's something in the pipeline but it's not what I was asking. Cheers anyway though
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You can 301 redirect /home to the original page or you can use a canonical tag. You may still see the error after that in SEOmoz however this should solve the error.
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