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Thank you, thank you, and thank you! This was the way I initially read 'external links' but was told in previous post I was wrong. Is by any chance the 'root domain' count of 1 but external links counting at say 10 highlighting that 10 links come from 1 domain...?

Thank you again, I cant tell you...

I've downloaded a crawl test and column G Link Count reads 62 and yep there are a total of 62 links on the page in question. Column AM Internal Links reads 303 and yep there are somewhere in the order of 303 pages pointing at this one. Root Domains is surprisingly low at 6, so maybe there are only 6 domains linking to this page.

BUT... External Links read 51. There are not 51 links pointing away from this domain on this page, no way hozay, so can anybody tell me what is meant by 'External Links?

A humble thank you in anticipation of an education.

Jem

Am I missing something? I'm trying to do Link Research on www.weddingcarsofhampshire.co.uk but it seems to be blocked, any ideas why that would be the case?

I'm new to the crawl test tool, I think I know what is meant by external links and linking root domains but I need to check. If there are 500 external links and 50 linking root domains does that suggest the essentially those 500 links are coming from 50 root domains?

If yes, then what would 1000 linking root domains and 100 links mean?

Or am I completely wrong in my assumptions and if so, can somebody point me in the right direction?

Thank you.

Thanks for the feed back guys, what an amazing community this is.

Thanks Tom, I've just watched the Rankerizer vid from your link, looks preety good, and you'd recommed it as a free servcie would you?

Do you know, I'm blown away by the answers here, this is great info, many thanks.

Thank you, you have all answered my question. I note your comment on light weight and fast load times but hear complaints of very slow loading content managed sites including WP, Joomla and others, is this not the case? Or is like any chosen platform where the inexperienced or those with little care can though error create burdens that may slow the site down?

Thank you, the reply above and yours are putting me in the picture, I didn't think there was a magic bullet, 'seo friendly' is a different concept entirely from 80-90% of the work being done for you. Best regards.

Thank you, that was my understanding and I am in complete agreement with your second paragraph. Steven Spaldings reply below clarifies for me further, thank you gentlemen.

I thought this would be the case, but does Wordpress have built in functions to automatically optimise a page?

Could you explain a little please? I know a little about SEO but Iess about Wordpress. Are you saying that 80-90% of SEO work regardless of site subject and target audience is done by Wordpress already?

Hi there, I’m looking for some feedback on a statement made on my Facebook Page re Wordpress and SEO. Please understand I wouldn’t class myself as an expert but I am competent and achieve satisfactory results for clients, more so since becoming a SEOmoz Pro user, I’ve just had some great results for a client using SEOmoz guidelines in ‘On Page SEO Reports’ thank you very much!

A comment however made on my FB page has got my interest….

“as you (kn)no(w) google loves WP and will get listed quicker as 80 to 90% of your SEO is already done”

Does Wordpress (or Joomla for that matter mentioned in the same conversation) have some SEO advantages that Google loves as the poster would have me believe, can I save time and effort working in word press from an SEO point of view?

I use the age old techniques of targeting key phrases and words and distributing them accordingly. Creating internal link structures with ‘key worded anchor text’ etc before embarking on any off page SEO.

Do any of you vastly experienced (in comparison to me) SEO folk have any insight into what this statement refers to?

I did not gather any references to SEO advantages in Wordpress or Joomla in the Enge and Fishkin et al book The Art of SEO, or any of the other books I’ve read, to develop my knowledge on SEO for the benefit of my clients and of course my pocket. J