Strange Links in OSE

[NigelJ]

Hey seomozers,

The most recent Linkscape update has created some strange links to our domain. They are links which when I navigate to are download links, here is one example:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4.9/updates/x86_64/headers/kernel-largesmp-0-2.6.9-89.0.25.EL.x86_64.hdr

Now this links has nothing to do with our site and I can't see how it would count as a link to our domain, can anyone shed some light on why these types of links are being crawled as a link to our domain?

Thanks

Nigel

[dittoeffect]

I have seen some similar activity on the link profiles of some sites and am equally confused.

I don't have a good explanation for this besides that there is bound to be some error or mistakes in gathering data to some degree.

Just wanted to add that I have observed a similar situation for a few sites.

[KeriMorgret]

Nigel,

I'm so sorry I didn't catch this question earlier. There is a known bug in Linkscape where it is treating binary files as having links and is messing up the data. Please see this Q&A thread with an explanation from one of the Linkscape engineers.

http://www.seomoz.org/q/competitive-edu-research-via-open-site-explorer