Performed a Moz Crawl Test - Says I have 107 External Links on Homepage??

[Richard-Kitmondo]

Hello Mozzers!

Exactly at the title suggests, I performed a crawl test on one our sites and the report says we have 107 external links on the homepage and another 34 on one of our internal category pages.

On both of these pages I can only find 7 external links, anyone know why the crawl test is saying this?

And if Moz is finding these external links could google be doing the same and punishing our site for the high number of external links?

Any response appreciated!

Richard

[ATP]

Hi Richard,

Could you provide a URL? Pvt message if you want, so I can take a look have a better idea

[Richard-Kitmondo]

Just sent you it

[ATP]

Havn't received anything yet

[Richard-Kitmondo]

www.kitmondo.com

[ATP]

Richard,

I ran a test and only found 6 or 7 external links like yourself. I think you may be getting slightly confused.

Are you talking about colum AO (External Links) in a moz crawler report download? If so this doesn't refer to external links pointing off your page. It refers to external links pointing into that page.

I think theres an older post somewhere on here about it.

http://moz.com/community/q/ok-crawl-test-link-question-again

Yup found it! Staff confirm my beliefs.

Hope that helps!

[Richard-Kitmondo]

Ha thanks for that.

I read all over about these external links and everything seemed to point the same way that they were links pointing out over.

A reword in the description of the crawl test categories I think is needed!

Thanks again - Problem solved!