No follow Internal Links
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Hello,
I am comparing my site with my competitors. According to Open Site Explorer, my site has 541 internal follow links, and a total of 1,286 total internal links, implying I have 745 no follow internal links.
I tried to drill into these internal no follow links using the "Inbound Links" report in OSE. But I'm receiving an error stating that No Data is Available for this URL.
Does anyone have any insight to this? I'd really like to understand where those no follow links are coming from.
Thanks in advance.
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Inbound links are links you receive from external websites. So the internal links won't show up there.
Try looking at your robots.txt file to see if you have any exlusions in it. The data will be different in a few weeks of course, but you'll still be comparing apples and pears
Inbound links = from external sources.
Internal links = your site linking to different pages on your root domain
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I would try again in a couple of weeks. I bet you get different numbers.
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