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Hello,I am trying to do an audit of the internal links of my site at zenplugs.com.  I am having great difficulty simply trying to establish how many internal links there are on the home page.  Off the top of my head I think there are probably 20-25 but Screaming Frog tells me there are 574, the MozBar is listing zero and Open Site Explorer is telling me my site hasn't been indexed yet.  I have tried several web based services but most of them don't work.  Can anyone recommend a tool which has given them a number they trust?

My second query is that one of the tools told me that there are 4 links on the home page with no anchor text, linking to http://zenplugs.com/#.  Is this a problem?

Many thanks, in advance.

Toby

Thanks everyone, very helpful.

Hello,

I have just used (the amazing) Screaming Frog to check my site and it is listing the two following pages as having duplicate titles, making me think it is seeing them as duplicate pages.

http://zenplugs.com/zenplugs-molded-earphones/

http://zenplugs.com/zenplugs-molded-earphones

Do I need to redirect one of these?

Thanks in advance!

Toby

I have been working my way through the Technical Site Audit Checklist by Geoff Kenyon which tells me to make sure 'Important pages have click‐through rate optimized titles and meta descriptions'.  How would you do this?

Thank you!  I'll get cracking.

Thank you, very helpful!

Hello,

Using Moz I can see that my ranks for my site ZenPlugs.com for keywords such as 'ear plugs' and 'molded ear plugs' and several other keywords aren't as high as other sites with similar DAs. I can't see why, am I missing something?

Many thanks,

Toby

I am going to go through and do this with all the main landing pages. Do you think it is worth also doing this with all of the blog  posts? I think there are about 50! I think the main problem will be complex sentences in these posts.

That's very helpful, thanks!  I'll do that.

Thanks, I owe you one big time!

I just Hemingway'd my front page and it is certainly much simpler and more readable, thanks for the tip!

This is excellent advice, thanks!  I will look into this.

Thanks Andy, it here http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-pair-of-Angel-Wings/

My goodness! Thank you, that slipped through the net!

My highest domain authority link to my website ZenPlugs.com is from Instructables.com. I have been in two minds as to whether the links are of benefit for some time. The site is highly regarded and the page content is of high-quality and has had hundreds of thousands of visitors but the content is not directly relevant to my ZenPlugs site, although there is a short passage regarding the ear plugs on the page. I also get traffic from the links. I have tried adding and removing the links but have not seen any obvious influence in either direction, although it is rather hard to tell. Do you think this link is relevant and how much does it matter?  Almost all my other links are very relevant.

Generally people seem to be avoiding directories as they can be spammy and thin on content. I have had problems with getting huge numbers of no follow links from them. I would say avoid.

Very good answer.

I don't consider the page to be thin, I consider it to be useful!  It is worth checking what other people are doing on their list pages and seeing how you rank compared to them. If you are not being penalised it presumably isn't causing a problem.

Now you come to mention it, I am having the same problem with my Squarespace site zenplugs.com.  The pages are indexing well but the images are mostly unindexed.  I would be very interested to hear any ideas!

You're number one hit!  Is your old website URL pointing to your new website?