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OK - thank you, good to know.

Right so yes I can see both sides here, but too now and when I've used OSE I was a bit confused by the results -- and in part I know my experience using the tool.

Though I am wondering if it would be good to see back links even those without a lot of authority...

_Cindy

Thank you Linda. My first reaction was why not incentivize authorities within particular industries to comment and answer questions on such a sites with link juice, but it makes sense now that people would try to take advantage

And I guess it would asking too much for publishers of such forums/review sites to give link juice for approved authors...? Maybe then I'm think more of a reputable news publication...

_Cindy

right of course nofollow
thank you.

OK thank you - that helps clarify my questions. So while the link may not carry weight if you were to gain traffic to the website, along with smart link building, that could be of help. If I'm understanding your response.

Thanks again - much appreciated!

_Cindy

And what about other sites like quora or other niche forums/blogs where one might leave answers, with a link to their profile, which has a link back to the owner's website?

_Cindy

I know my websites have links from other sites, but I don't see it listed using the open explorer tool.

perhaps the reputation of the external link is a factor?

_Cindy

Thank you for your reply.

This info is helpful, but my next question is by what criteria then are the websites being graded as either true or false,

--  all the websites on my campaigns are responsive sites, work well on a mobile, but perhaps one particular grading point is labeling all the websites as "false" for Mobile Friendly.

I noticed in my keyword ranking reports that the heading "Google en-US Mobile Friendly" indicates false for all tracked keywords...

Is this information still helpful in the reports?

_Cindy

Vijay,

Thank you for sending the link. I did read google's info about the default setting and thought adding index.htm(l) would actually remove it, as say permalinks feature does, not add it.

My default page setting is clear now and I'm just wondering how long it will take to get clean urls, since this does seem to be the issue.

I guess I could create a filter in GA, but lunametrics provides examples to add the index.htm(l) or .php and I would want to remove it, if possible, and my regex is not up to speed here.

But I do believe this default page is the issue and will get back to you.

thanks again! _Cindy

And what about other sites like quora or other niche forums/blogs where one might leave answers, with a link to their profile, which has a link back to the owner's website?

_Cindy