What's the difference between 'external links' and 'linking domains to this domain' in my report?
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I'm looking at a competitor analysis report. The number provided for 'external links' is 150. The number for 'external links to this domain' is 4860 and 'linking domains to this domain' is 232. What are the differences between these numbers?
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This is the keyword analysis SERP tool.
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Hi,
What feature / tool is providing this report ?
linking domains to this domain
** The domains that are linking to that particular site with one or more links (from different pages). You can have one domain with one link or one domain with 10,000 links - side wide links from footers or sidebars - linking from each page so again - 10,000 pages with a link in the side bar = 10000 links but only one linking domain.
external links to this domain
** All links from all pages pointing to the domain - those can even be from one single domain (see above).
external links
** What tools / feature is providing this number ?
Cheers.
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