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    • cbizzle
      cbizzle last edited by

      www.sylvaniachurch.com shows over 14,000 nofollow links, but I have never deliberately created a nofollow link. How, then, did I collect so many?

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      • BrightHealth
        BrightHealth last edited by

        Without digging into it too deep, it's because _that number is all links. _

        It is pulling links from within your own site.

        Looking at OSE, you have 464 total external links and 30,837 total (including the links on your own site).

        It looks like you have social buttons which are sitewide and likely to be nofollowed. I counted at least eight nofollows on your homepage alone. This is the culprit, or at least a good contributor!

        Hope that helps!

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        • JMacSupply
          JMacSupply last edited by

          Look in OSE: Showing only _rel=nofollow _links from external pages to pages on this root domain:

          http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?page=1&site=www.sylvaniachurch.com&sort=page_authority&filter=nofollow&source=external&target=domain&group=0

          It shows only 17 no-follow external links to pages on your site.

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