What do these link terms mean?
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I'm not sure what all of the different link terms mean:
-External, followed links
-Internal, nofollowed links
-External, nofollowed links
-Internal, no followed links
-Total linking domains
-Followed linking domains
What are the differences?
Which metric will indicate the total # of other sites that are linking to my site?
Thank you!
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That will be 'Total linking domains' . It's the number of different sites that are linking to yours. The second one that otherwise would be used is the sum of the two external links (follow/nofollow). That's the number that you'd get if you take the number of links from every individual name.
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