Only 2 internal links in OpenSite Explorer?
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In Open Site Explorer´s tab Full list of Metrics I get for the Page Specific Metrics only 2 Internal Followd Links for one of my websites domain URL. I have checked this metric for other websites and I get some surprising results.
Most of the websites get an amount which seems logical take the size of the site into account. But there are a couple of sites more for which I get very low results like only 1 or 2 Internal Followed Links! This is strange because the sites do have at least more than a 100 internal pages which are all linking back to the domain and are indexed in Google. I have checked if there is something strange with the robots.txt or htaccess but I havent found anything.
So I wonder if this a failure in Open Site Explorer or can there be any other explanation?
Anybody with similar experience?
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Hi Cees,
I would actually wait until Tuesday (US time) and re-run your metrics. Open Site Explorer is updating as I type this, so in another few hours there should be fresh information. Run your reports and see if there's still the same problem. If there is still the problem, open a ticket with the help desk either through the web or by emailing help@seomoz.org.
Thanks!
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I can assure you that the links on my site are accesible for any bot. As you can see on the attached image this happens on other website also. From the 10 pages in the list there are only 2 with more than 2 lnternal links. I am 200% sure that this is not a accessibility problem. It really looks more like something not working quite well in OSE.
thanks for your response.
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I see 2 possibilities that might help explain things. Your site might possibly have some site architecture or internal linking issues that may explain why a search engine bot or seomoz bot cannot crawl internal links. If you give a url we could take a look to make sure there aren't actually any issues. Also OSE only crawls approximately 25% of links on the net so it may be possible that if you run some internal links on your site through the tool they might not be included in the index. I hope this can help further investigation that may assist in finding your answer.
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