Why does my site only have 4 internal followed links/internal links?

[kabledesigns]

When using Open Site Explorer my site is winning in many categories but lacking in others as compared to competitors. I intend to improve on this but am a little confused by the extremely low number of "internal followed links" and "internal links" at just 4. My competitors have much more than that.

Does this mean links to the root domain? Total internal links? I have many internal links so I'm having a hard time figuring this one out. What four internal links are getting noticed?

I just went through and changed all the links that went to index.html to link to the root domain at www.njlimocarservice.com as I just found a Q&A that indicates this was better. So as of Wed at 5:45 PM all my links to the homepage went to index.html and not the root which is no longer the case. Not sure if this matters.

At the same time I also just put a 301 from index.html to redirect to www.njlimocarservice.com.

Any help appreciated!

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[riplash]

I think you've already taken the correct course of action here. Take a look at this OSE result, comparing your Root Domain with /index.html..

OSE Results Page

The lack of internal links to your Root Domain is a result of your menu structure linking to /index.html before. The recommended thing to do would be exactly as you have done, change all the links to point to the Root Domain, and 301 /index.html to the Root Domain, too.

[kabledesigns]

Got it thanks for the help. I assume this will help my rankings a little when Google picks up next time?

[kabledesigns]

Been some time since I changed this and had no luck - any ideas?