Why does my website have 2,000+ links, but only 16 linking root domains?

[thestudio4]

Why does my website have 2,000+ links, but only 16 linking root domains?

[RankSurge]

The quick answer might be that your link appears on a footer/blogroll section of a site. So, if that site has 500 pages, you're getting credit for those 500 links.

Despite that, you should always focus on the getting a diversity of links, and that includes various linking root domains.

[My-Favourite-Holiday-Cottages]

Thats means on those 16 root domains, at least one of them has several 100 links to your domain.

ie

www.example.com might have a sidebar or footer link to you page, thus generating a link on every page of it's website to yours.

If your metric includes internal link, it's also possable you have 2,000 pages on your website with a logo or footer link to the page, thus causing a lot of links from one (yours) root domain.

Uisng open site explorer you should be able to see which websites are responsable for the large number of links.