Internal Links Count in Crawl Report
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My understanding of the 'Internal Links' results in a moz crawl report is that it represents the number of links on the given page that link to other pages on the same site.Assuming this is a correct assumption:
We recently ran a crawl report on www.phase1tech.com. Some of the pages are coming back with a large amount of 'internal links'. These 2 pages for example are showing 800 internal links:
http://www.phase1tech.com/Upcoming-Events
http://www.phase1tech.com/ContactThen there are a number of pages coming back with 705 Internal Links, including:
http://www.phase1tech.com/Dalsa-CameraLink-Cameras
http://www.phase1tech.com/Hitachi-CameraLink-CamerasAt best there are approximately 70-80 links on these pages. Where are these large counts coming from? Is there a means to see what the links being reported on are?
At the same time the 'Too Many On-Page Links' indicates 'No' for some pages with a high number of links, and 'Yes' for pages with a low number of links. For example:
http://www.phase1tech.com/Baumer-SX-Series
Too Many On-Page Links: Yes
Internal Links: 2
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Christy
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Hey there! Sorry about the confusion here. I'll start by clarifying Internal Links - they are the number of pages linking to a specific page on the same domain.
Let's take http://www.phase1tech.com/Upcoming-Events and pop it into Open Site Explorer with some filters. We'll "Target" this specific page, with internal only "Link Source(s)" and allow all link types. Now let's have a look: http://screencast.com/t/upxeS1gSNm - This shows us the 800 Internal Links being referred to in the Crawl Test. We see 799 total links detailed below, including the target page itself.
I hope this helps!
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Hi!
I would look at your www. and non www redirect
OSE is probably counting all your pages for both www and non www + the blog subdomain.
Plus older pages that aren't there anymore. You might have done a cleanup and removed some old pages. Those might've gotten included in the count as well.
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