Issue with External Links

[Stephaneham]

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[RyanPurkey]

Hi Stephan. It might be in how the Moz campaign is recognizing your domain. If it's either having trouble with the https vs http or if you've set the Moz Analytics to target a very specific section of your site, i.e. "domain + /folder/", it might be triggering this warning. Looking at the code of your site though, the links are certainly internal for the most part. You can run Screaming Frog or Xenu to get a count as well. Cheers!

[DmitriiK]

Hi there.

I looked at your website, and, as you said, there are no external links really. I wonder if MOZ crawler considers your own website as external, since you are using absolute paths, rather than relative ones.

Try changing them to relative links (I personally prefer that due to faster loading and ease of work) and see if MOZ changes it's errors report.

Cheers!

[Stephaneham]

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[Stephaneham]

Indeed, Screaming Frog views all the sidebar/footer links as internal, and a great majority of the links are internal. Now I'm simply confused.

[RyanPurkey]

Right. It's definitely looking like a Moz side issue since the code and other spiders are saying the links are internal. So I'd put this issue in the 'bug' file and ignore their warning for the time being. They're in Q&A often so you'll get an official word. Again, just a few possible causes tho:

1. System settings could be too specific
2. https could be seen as external to a default of http
3. There could be an issue in processing 'ca' TLDs.

Cheers!

[Stephaneham]

For the time being, I've replaced my absolute links by relative ones to see if it makes a difference as Dmitrii suggested. How can I put things in the "bug" file?

[RyanPurkey]

Ah! By 'bug' file I just meant a mental note to yourself so that this issue doesn't hold up other work. Looks like you're doing everything right on your end.