Strange results in my opensiteexplorer.org report

[Jack4ireland]

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[Cyrus-Shepard]

Howdy,

So this is a Top Pages report that you ran on your own site in Open Site Explorer?

What this report shows is the top pages as determined by the link authority features of your incoming links. It is actually not based on a crawl of your site.

So here's what can, and often does happen: External websites link to pages on your site that don't actually exist. A brief glance suggests this is what happened here. Those links look like auto-generated spam to me, and likely were made by a wayward robot.

The good news is that because your server is returning a 403 response code (Forbidden) those pages on your site don't really exist, and the effect of those links is basically null. If you returned a 404 (which would be more common) the effect would be the same.

So why does OSE report on Top Pages if they don't actually exist? The real value is when you find links coming into broken or misdirected pages (think 404, 302, etc) and you can then fix those pages to take advantage of the link juice.

Hope this helps. If you like, you can dig around OSE to try and find where those links originated, but it likely doesn't make a big difference either way.