Metric "Total Links" can somebody explain this metric to me?
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Dear colleagues,
Who can explain the following to me?
Subdomain metrics - Total links
The total links is huge compared to the sum of internal and external links. I do not understand this metric. Can somebody help me to explain this the metrich "total links" I have to present these metrics to my customer and do not want to have "don't know" as an answer
Thanks,
Alain Nijholt
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Hi there! This is Megan from SEOmoz.
If you'd like to send the URL you're looking at over to help@seomoz.org, we'd be happy to look at this further so we can try to explain all the numbers.
Thanks!
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I guess I would have to know the URL you are referencing to actually verify what exactly you are talking about.
But here is an example of links for a single page on my site:
I have 24 linking root domains with a total of 722 total links to ABCpage on my site.
One of those linking root domains is my domain. I have 331 internal links pointing to ABCpage.
So that leaves almost 400 links left spread across 23 other domains. MANY of these domains have 5+ pages on their websites linking to ABCpage. Other domains of the 23 have a single page linking to ABCpage; however, they may have 3+ links to ABCpage.
You can see links can add up very quickly.
I don't know if this helps or not, but if you are willing to share your website's URL, that would let me or others analyze it if you have any concerns.
Mike
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Hello Mike,
Thanks for your quick response. Yes I assumed it was all links (int, ext, followed, non followed. But when I count approximately 5 k links and total links says 225 k?
Strange that these figures do not match... Developement? I though SEO MOZ was het best, I have been using it for 5 weeks now.
@Mike, sum up the links from a few analysis and I think these do not match the total links number...
Development? Please help me out...
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SEOMoz defines that metric on OpenSiteExplorer.org as, "All links to this page including internal, external, followed, and nofollowed."
So more or less, total links means all possible links.
Hope this helps.
Mike
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