Links don't add up

[landmark1]

Sorry if this is obvious, but I'm new to seomoz. I've run an analysis for one of my pages and it's showing 624 total links - 118 internal and 6 external. Why doesn't the sum of the internal and external links equal the total links?

[DougRoberts]

Steve, can you tell us what the page is and what you used for analysis? Was this Open Site Explorer?

[landmark1]

Hi Doug,

Thanks for the quick reply. I was using the Keyword Difficulty Tool, but I get the same result using Open SIte Explorer. The page is www.mobile-phones-uk.org.uk/samsung-galaxy-ace.htm

Thanks,

Steve

[DougRoberts]

624 is the number of total links (followed and no-followed).

Your 624 links are made up of:

• 616 Internal Links (of which 118 Followed Links)
• 8 External Links (of which 6 are Followed Links)

= 624 Links (of which 124 are Followed Links.)

You can see these metrics easily by looking at the Compare Link Metrics tab in Open Site Explorer.

Hope this helps.

[landmark1]

OK, thanks Doug. That does add up now, although I don't understand why SEOMOZ thinks there are hundreds of nofollowed internal links, as these don't exist. In fact, if I ask it to show only nofollowed links, it can only find two.

[DougRoberts]

When I look at the links or export them to CSV it looks as if you're only getting a subset of data. (I could only get 30 links in the CSV file when there should have been more than 600.) Might be an idea to drop support a line.

Have you tried crawling the site with something like screaming frog?

[landmark1]

Thanks Doug, I've sent a message to support. Thanks for all your help on this.