What is the 'External Links' column referring to in the SEOMoz Crawl report?

[chartisInsurance]

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[WesleySmits]

Links from your website: http://domain.com to a different website: http://otherdomain.com

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[SEO-Enlighten]

Chartis,

External links are links from external sources - you can investigate this closer by running a report on Open Site Explorer for the page you are interested in, and select "only external pages" as a filter - this will show you where your External links are coming from.

Hope this helps.

[mihaiaperghis]

Could you tell us where exactly do you see an External Links column in the Crawl section?

I'm looking at the Crawl Diagnostics page and can't seem to find that.

[SEO-Enlighten]

The report we're referring to is the one that is access through the "Research Tools". It is no longer listed there now but you can access it through http://pro.moz.com/tools/crawl-test It provides a quick crawl of any site (up to 3000 pages). Very good tool if you don't have a week to wait for Roger to do a complete crawl. I use it all the time for Biz Dev work.

Hope this helps.