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Hi, i would like to know if this is normal as i have never come across it before. i have just checked my speed which needs a lot of improving. I use joomla 3.0 and recently had a developer upgrade it from 1.5, but now i am seeing under the speed test my website showing twice which looks like it is causing a time delay.

the tool is

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/dTjwDM/www.in2town.co.uk

can someone please look and let me know if this is normal.

my site www.in2town.co.uk is coming up twice which seems to be slowing the site down and i have checked this tool with other sites and they are fine

many thanks

hi, i found the problem. i am using a news content module to display my news and for some reason they have stupid settings on it that brings in more links. the tool for joomla is called module news show pro gk4.

With this module you have to go through each one and make sure that you are not asking it to display links to other pages.

now i have reduced my links to 174, i know have to decide, do i reduce my links more by removing content to try and get under the 100 link rule or do i listen to the new article that is stating that the 100 link rule does not really matter now. However, as has been mentioned on here, if i have over 100 links then google is not going to crawl them and cause me seo damage, on the other hand, thinking about the user experience, the page would look silly if i removed a large number of them.

thanks for this, we have tried re-writing the articles but we would be spending our life time doing this. every week we are spending hours contacting people over copyright theft. it is getting beyond a joke.

i use that to help check for content theft

Hi, getting really fed up now. we have for years had nothing but trouble with people stealing our content. I have checked this morning and have spent the last three hours contacting sites of the theft of our content. This is now happening on a weekly basis where i am spending hours contacting website owners.

can anyone please let me know how i complain to google and how can i stop this theft from happening

thank you for this. I have just looked at my source code and i am very puzzled. I have been trying to understand why tools are showing that i have links on my home page that are not there, and i have done what you have done and counted the links in the source code and there are more links there than on the home page, so i do not how this is happening.

example

Tuesday 2 July. ANDY’S FEELING THE HEAT. As Andy worries about the prospect of losing his house, amidst all the problems he...p><p class="<a class="attribute-value">nspInfo  nspInfo2 tleft fleft</a>">p>div><div class="<a class="attribute-value">nspArt nspCol3</a>" style="<a class="attribute-value">padding:0 20px 20px 0;clear:both;</a>"><h4 class="<a class="attribute-value">nspHeader tleft fleft</a>"><a href="[/emmerdale/emmerdale-debbie-does-not-know-who-to-trust](view-source:http://www.in2town.co.uk/emmerdale/emmerdale-debbie-does-not-know-who-to-trust)" title="<a class="attribute-value">Emmerdale Debbie Does Not Know Who To Trust</a>">Emmerdale Debbie Does Not Know Who To Trusta>h4><a href="[/emmerdale/emmerdale-debbie-does-not-know-who-to-trust](view-source:http://www.in2town.co.uk/emmerdale/emmerdale-debbie-does-not-know-who-to-trust)" class="<a class="attribute-value">nspImageWrapper tleft fleft</a>" style="<a class="attribute-value">margin:6px 6px 9px 0;</a>"><img class="<a class="attribute-value">nspImage tleft fleft</a>" src="[/images/soap/emmerdalrobbie4.jpg](view-source:http://www.in2town.co.uk/images/soap/emmerdalrobbie4.jpg)" alt="<a class="attribute-value">Emmerdale Debbie Does Not Know Who To Trust</a>"  style="<a class="attribute-value">width:140px;height:82px;</a>"  />a><p class="<a class="attribute-value">nspText tleft fleft</a>"> the above is part of the source code, so i do not understand why these links are showing as on my home page when they are not on my home page, this brings me to the question, the tools i have used to find out how many links are on my home page are showing more than are actually on the home page so i need to get this sorted 

thank you for the advice

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

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

would it be a good idea to do a no follow link on the website as then this would be seen as not exchanging links

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

just wanted to give you some information here. i have used the screaming frog tool and it is showing links from other pages rather than just my main page, which looks like this is the reason why the other tool is showing over 240 links

do you know the reason for this, or is this a case that google will be following all the links on my site from the home page and counting them all as links.

there is no way i can get under 100 if google is counting all the links on my site

thank you for this. i have turned it off and will speak to sh404sef to find out what they can do about it, as i am worried about having the security feature, but as you said that was the problem and now the site is showing fine, there are no errors showing.

many thanks for this. I hope other people who are having this problem get to read this post as they must be going through what i am going through. many thanks for all your help and the solution

hi, i have been using a great tool today called screaming frog which was shown to me by Thomas Zickell

when i used the tool i found some worrying things for my site www.in2town.co.uk. what i have found is, i have a large number of 403 forbidden status on my home page and i do not know why

here is an example

http://www.in2town.co.uk/emmerdale/emmerdale-debbie-hits-rock-bottom

it loads fine but on the tool it shows it as an error and shows it as having no meta tags or anything but there is meta tags in there

can anyone please let me know how to solve this and why it has happened

many thanks

counted on my page now i have stopped the images being linked as 148 but the tool is showing me 234 so i need to find out where these extra links are coming from

thank you for the great advice, i am going to get started on this straight away and please do pm me over the trusted names as i really want to get this right. we had the site re-developed and put on the new joomla 3.0 and since we had it updated, we have lost rankings.

for example, we were on page one for lifestyle magazine, we are now on page 8,  we were on page one for gastric band hypnotherapy, we are now out of the top 50, we were on page one for showbiz gossip, we are again out of the top 50, so i do not know what the developer has done or the reason behind this but i need to find out.

many thanks for all the great advice

thank you for this, i will keep an eye on which links are not being pressed as much and remove them

how do you mean i am hurting my rank. i will look and see if there any links that i can remove, do you feel i should not have any links on the image, so instead of people being able to click the image to go to the article, do you think it should just be the title they should click on

yes it is www.in2town.co.uk

I have just done the report for my site http://www.in2town.co.uk and it says i have 246 on page links but i am not sure how come i have got that many. I know i have a large number of links and in the old days it says that you should keep the links under 100 but now with website speed and the net, people are saying this is no longer listened to. A report i read said that the links should not confuse the reader or put them off, so i am just wondering what your thoughts are on a site with over a 100 links on the home page and also if my site does have to many links what should i do about it.

I cannot understand why it is showing 246 when i do not see that many on the page, any advice would be great