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    • ClaireH-184886
      ClaireH-184886 last edited by

      hi, i have used screaming frog seo and it has brought up a link to another site we run but this is a strange link

      the link is

      http://www.in2town.co.uk/www.clairehegarty.co.uk/virtual-gastric-band-with-hypnotherapy

      i have gone through the site on the home page as this is where it is and i cannot find, so i was just wondering if there was a tool that i can use to pin point where it is.

      any help would be great

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      • MikeRoberts
        MikeRoberts last edited by

        That odd URL is the link in the image on the right side of your site for "lose weight today with gastric band hypnotherapy".

        I used Open Site Explorer to find what pages were linking in and they all mention "(img alt) gastric" which made it easier to pinpoint where on the pages the link was coming from.

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        • ClaireH-184886
          ClaireH-184886 @MikeRoberts last edited by

          hi mike, i have just looked at the image and found it, many thanks for this, spent hours sorting this out.

          just came across another one, which i do not understand why i have a bad link like this, so will find this now.

          http://www.in2town.co.uk/Health Magazine

          if i can work out why i have so many links on the home page, where i am being told there are 262 when really there are only around 140.

          it seems for some reason links are showing on the home page from other pages.

          many thanks for all your help, should have come on here earlier and asked, would have saved myself five hours looking for the problem

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          • MikeRoberts
            MikeRoberts @ClaireH-184886 last edited by

            Using tools from SEOBook, I'm seeing 228 internal links on your homepage to your category pages and articles. They appear to be legitimate links so I wouldn't worry that there are too many though you should double-check that you don't have too many duplicate links unless they are necessary.

            As for http://www.in2town.co.uk/Health Magazine, that's just an improperly encoded space though it would seem given your URL structure that it should be a dash - not a space. Once again, check Open Site Explorer and that should help you find what is linking to it.

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            • ClaireH-184886
              ClaireH-184886 @MikeRoberts last edited by

              cheers for that. it is strange that i am looking for links on the home page which there are around 140 or so and then google is pulling links from the different sections and showing them on the home page.

              will see if i can find the solution to try and reduce the link

              many thanks for all your help

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