Why Open Site Explorer is Showing 0 Total Internal Links?

[chloeczhashemi]

Hello, I am seeing the same problem for the following domain: https://ccsadoption.org/

Could anyone provide any further info on this issue? I can't see any robots.txt issues...

Thanks,

Chloe

[DavidLee]

Hi Chloe

It's possible that your site's authority is too low for us to crawl your internal pages. The Crawl delay in robots could also be preventing us from crawling.

You will want to keep link building as currently there are no new links being discovered which means we won't revisit your site until we can find quality links from other sites: https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/just-discovered?site=ccsadoption.org%2F&filter=&source=&target=domain&page=1&sort=crawled

Hope this helps

[bijouxusa.com]

David,

Same here. (http://www.bijouxusa.com)

Our page authority shows 34

I am seeing Total Internal Links and Internal Equity-Passing Links as 0.

Is this any actionable information?

Thanks for your help

[DavidLee]

Hello!

Your site does not have enough links or authority for us to crawl.

https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/pages?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bijouxusa.com&sort=page_authority&filter=all&page=1

Keep link building to all pages on your site and on sites that are frequently visited with high authority which can help increase your score.

[willscott]

Hi David,

I'm having the same issue with the following domain: http://trahanarchitects.com/

It's saying the site has 0 internal links but we know that is not true. Our external links are registering but not our internal links. Please advise.

[DavidLee]

Hi Will

Sorry to hear we have not crawled your site.

There are currently no new links going to any page on the site that will send us back for possible crawling. Also many of the pages indexed are returning 404s.

https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/pages?site=http%3A%2F%2Ftrahanarchitects.com%2Fwork%2Fholy-rosary%2F&sort=page_authority&filter=all&page=1

https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/just-discovered?site=http%3A%2F%2Ftrahanarchitects.com%2F&filter=&source=&target=domain&page=1&sort=crawled

To stay in an index and potentially have metrics calculated, you want to have continuous and fresh links going to the site to active pages. It most likely that the external links were captured over a span of time within a 160 day window but not enough close together to deem your site important to crawl. These are both the most common reasons we may index links but not crawl.

Hope this helps!

[willscott]

David,

Thank you for your prompt response.

However, I know that http://trahanarchitects.com/ has in fact obtained several external links (around 20) all pointing back to the homepage in the past 160 days. So are you saying in order for Moz to crawl our internal links (which it's incorrectly has indexed at 0) we should be obtaining external links for more than just our homepage? It sounds to me like the issue is our external links aren't diverse enough.

I also found another discrepancy when looking at a competitors website. According to the Moz tool, http://www.eskewdumezripple.com/ has 144,000 internal links, but there is no possible way this is correct. According to Google http://www.eskewdumezripple.com/ only has 610 pages indexed. That's an insane number of internal links for such few pages. And when looking at the website you can tell just by looking that there aren't 144k internal links. Please advise.

[DavidLee]

The links should be more diverse and the external pages are being link to from diverse links and so forth and so forth. There is no exact number of links I can say that would allow our crawler to crawl the links, as it can depend on many factors.

For http://www.eskewdumezripple.com, we are indexing links to multiple category/tag URLs that are contributing to the link count for example:

http://www.eskewdumezripple.com/studio-life/archives/2014/05
http://www.eskewdumezripple.com/studio-life/blog/by_tag/tag/community+engagement

You can use pagination to see what type of links are being picked up here: https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/pages?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eskewdumezripple.com%2F&no_redirects=0&sort=page_authority&filter=all&page=1

HTTP status will indicate wether or not we crawled the page (200 status or No Data).

Hope this helps

[seoteam_ionline]

Hi David,
We also noticed that our website - https://workwearplusaustralia.com.au/ - has a 0 internal links, can you see why please?
Thanks!

[Jaclynb]

Hi David, I am seeing the same thing, would it be possible to look at https://www.yourtravelspark.com/

My Moz report is also saying that I went from 10.3k links in August to 526 last month - any reason that would happen?

Thank you for any help you can provide!

Jaclyn.

[Tradecopiers]

Hi Daivd, can you take a look at https://www.whichcartridge.co.uk please. It is also reporting 0 internal links.

Thanks.

[completeslidingdoors]

Hi David,

I am having a similar problem with one of my sites. completeslidingdoors.com says I have 0 internal links when i very clearly have many. Could you take a quick look at this and let me know what you think?

Thanks in advance!

Eric