Removing the clutter of site-wide links
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I have a multi-part question with regard to the moz link index and some presentation suggestions.
Firstly I would be interested to know how the link index treats site-wide links with regard to metrics such as DA, and PA. We all know that it is highly likely that SE's are unlikely to pass full link value across from sitewide links, and therefore it would make sense for Moz values to account for this as well - if they do not already.
One annoying thing that also relates to sitewides is that they tend to clutter the much of the information presentation in a few of the tools (you can't see wood for trees as it were). This is most prominent in the "Just Discovered" page - if you have a sitewides on a large site, you can often find that this screen is just totally filled with these links as they are found. It would be very useful to be able to filter these out, as they are of little interest - currently I can't see a way of filtering them out.
A further value where they create to much noise is the 'Total Links' value. Where sitewides are included in this value, the value actually becomes pretty meaningless as you can find that the majority of that value is sitewides. It would therefore be useful if there was another value for 'Total Links - Excluding Sitewides' where maybe value of 1 was just added to the count for a site wide
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I guess I am unsure of what you are looking for then. ahrefs does separate them out in terms of showing a percentage and being able to look at the sitewides versus non, but there is no way to exclude them overall when you have used the disavow tool, etc. When you have someone nefariously linking to a site with 20000 links from a single site, it muddies the water to have them all there. Even though they show what is or is not sitewide, it would be nice if you could see the reports totally excluding them.
Best of luck
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ahrefs.com provides the separation of sitewides and nonsitewides as a standard headline metric, and this is a useful metric.
My question wasn't in regard to the effect of sitewide links (we all know that manipluated sitewides are a red rag to a bull - but can equally be totally natural and clean ), but the fact that they create an awful lot of noise in some of the reports, and it would be nice to be able to filter that noise out.
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James77
As to how it shows in the link index, with most of the more well known link software, I know of none that has the ability to exclude certain links to improve the view as it were.
As to the effect of sitewide links, if there is a high percentage of sitewide to total, you are setting yourself up for algorithmic loss of rank if not a partial or full manual penalty, IMO.
Best,
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