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I certainly can't speak for Roger Mozbot (the crawler) but I've always assumed the Crawl Diagnostic just indicates gross link count - i.e. totaling up the number of hrefs on a page. Otherwise the crawler would have to be following every link, which I don't think is likely. More to the point, I just use that number for trending and as a threshold. If my report shows 140 on-page links, it could be as low as 90 or 100 when dupes are taken into account and it wouldn't matter - I'd still know I have too many. Paul