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Thanks for the reply Tom.

I have brought this up with MOZ support previously, and they mentioned that it may be down to relative / absolute links. We did change some things around but I'm sceptical to be honest.

Hello!

Our domain, http://www.unionroom.com/, is having a strange issue with OSE in that it is telling us our internal pages aren't linking to one another. An example of this is that it is showing our About page ( http://www.unionroom.com/about/ ) only having three links, but this link appears twice on every single page on the website (~200 pages) in the header and footer.

We've hung around for a little while to see if OSE would correct itself, but it hasn't and this now suggests that it may be an issue with our in-linking structure.

Can anyone spot any issues with our build? The rest of the websites that we produce, that are all built in the same way, all have healthy internal linking structures according to OSE. Very confusing!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the link David, we will take a look through that.

I've quickly looked at some competitor websites and their home links are all href="/", so would I be correct in assuming that it if this affected our website it should also affect others in OSE?

I ran some inner pages through OSE (/work and /contact) and both look to be indexed.

It's weird that you say 'For example we do have /blog/ indexed but there isn't a link going back to the homepage as "www.unionroom.com"' as this is one of only two pages (blog and accessibility) showing that DO link back to unionroom.com.

In summary:

• All inner pages are crawled.
• All inner pages (that we have tested) are indexed.
• All of our pages use the same template.
• OSE is stating that only two inner pages link back to the homepage (blog and accessibility).

The crawl looks to be working correctly, as in it is finding all of the pages and posts that we would expect (approximately 300). It looks to be solely an issue with the number of internal links that OSE is saying the page www.unionroom.com has (27).

All but two of our inner pages, aside from the blog and accessibility, aren't listed on our internal link report for the homepage. This includes top level pages like services, about, contact etc, all missing.

The templates that we use for the blog and accessibility pages are identical to to what we use for other inner pages, so it's unusual that the others aren't listed.

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?page=1&site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.unionroom.com%2F&sort=page_authority&filter=&source=internal&target=page&group=0

Hi David,

Thanks for your reply.

I'm concerned that on the competitor websites that we are evaluating using OSE, their websites' internal links are displaying much higher numbers than ours (27 vs ~300) even though our websites are of similar size. Could this possibly highlight an issue with our website structure (i.e. crawlers are having an issue finding ways back to the homepage via inner pages, even though we have three on each page around the website), or is this a case of MOZ crawling perhaps showing incorrect statistics?

I'm trying to eliminate the possibility of OSE's statistics being incorrect before we attempt to change the structure of the website and begin testing etc.

Thanks!

Hi,

We have been attempting to increase our rankings for our key term for a number of months now, and we are seeing an unusual discrepancy between OSE and Webmaster Tools that we believe may be causing us harm.

OSE shows our homepage, www.unionroom.com, as having only 27 internal links (only three of these aren't 301's too), whereas Webmaster Tools is showing just over 1,500 internal links to the homepage.

The three pages that OSE are displaying as linking back to the homepage are the homepage, our blog and our accessibility page. These pages are all ran off the same template and have the same header and footer (with three home links spread across header and footer). You can see our confusion!

Is this a case of OSE's stats being incorrect (the website has been live for ~6 months) or is there an issue with our in-linking structure that we are missing?

Thanks!