Internal Links not being Identified on OSE
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Greetings Mozzers,
When ever I check my home page on OSE it says I have a total of 5 internal links. Obviously this is WAY off.
I've used all relative links, if I were to removed all relative and make them absolute, would there be a better chance of OSE identifying them instead of losing that juice?
I think this is huge to resolve as when I compare my site to competitors, almost all factors are in our favor except this huge gap of only 5 internal links.
I'm using Drupal CMS. For example, Drupal normally outputs internal links as "/about" and "/about/team" in the menus. If we changed it to "https://monsterweb.net/about", and "https://monsterweb.net/about/team", would that make a difference?
Thanks for all the advice and clarification on this matter.
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Hey Tom,
Thanks for tipping us off on this post. We'll take a look at it!
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Hey Monster,
Here is a helpful post about this topic. http://www.seomoz.org/q/opensiteexplorer-does-not-show-some-links
Hope that helps,
Tom
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