Why am I not getting my allowance of 10,000 inbound links in csv download file? 370 out of 4700??

[LiveFit]

Hi,

I'm desparately trying to audit my backlinks to remove a penguin penalty on my site livefit.co.uk

When I do the inbound link report i'm not getting all the links in the download. I know there is a limit of 25 links from each linking site so we get the full picture of links bu:

1. I have 4700 links so why does it need to limit it when we are supposed to see up to 10,000?

2. When you check the link profile on the report it doesn't seem there are many sites with anything close to 25, so surely that rule is invalid as an explanation here?

Should I just work off OSE? But there is less useful info than on the csv..

I'd be very grateful for your thoughts.

Thanks!

James

[kchandler]

This has happened to me in the past, make sure when you are setting your filter you have everything set correctly to get your full link profile. Make sure you have the inbound links tab selected and your filter is set like this:

Show "all" links from "only external" pages to "pages on this root domain" and "show links ungrouped".

The biggest issue is making sure you have it set to root domain, if not you will only be pulling the backlink profile to your homepage. Let me know if that did the trick, if not i would submit a help ticket to help@semoz.org. They are normally really responsive!

Regards - Kyle

[LiveFit]

Thanks Kyle. I was already looking at the root domain. But your response triggered me to check external vs. internal and I found that the 370 links in the csv were my external AND the other 4300 were internal... is having that many internal links ok? The site has 92 indexed pages according to GWMT..

Thanks for your help

James

[kchandler]

The rule of thumb is to try and keep below 100 links per page as well as trying to limit the amount of site wide links.

Check out the crawl section in the pro campaign - they have a warning if you have to many on-page links. That would be a great starting place to check.

[Christy-Correll]

Hi James,

Kyle provided some very good responses. Has your issue been resolved?

Cheers,

Christy