Issue with Opesiteexplorer report
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Hi,
When I pulled backlinks report for my website from opensite explorer. I see the backlinks listing for my homepage is duplicated with index page. Ex. For a external website my homepage www.website.com as well as www.website.com/index.php shows as backlinks.
Note: I had given rel=canonical tag to my homepage and index.php is 301 redirection to the homepage. I find this error only to my homepage and I don't find this issue to my inner pages.
I would like to know whether this is an issue with opensiteexplorer or a problem with my homepage url.
Your answers are appreciated.
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Hi Justin,
Thanks for your quick reply.
Previously, we had our homepage as www.myhomepage.com/index.php and we had done some link building too. Due to some reasons we have changed it again to www.myhomepage.com.
Now the problem what I see is that when I pull the OSE report. I get a link with duplication i.e. Even though external backlink website links to my site with www.myhomepage.com in the OSE report it shows as backlinks for both www.myhomepage.com as well as www.myhomepage.com/index.php (sort of duplicated link count only for the home page)
Please let me know whether we have any issues with our homepage.
Thanks in advance
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From my understanding of what you are saying this is neither a problem with your homepage or opensiteexplorer.
Opensiteexplorer (OSE) is reporting the links that it finds to your domain/subdomain, therefore if an external site has used the href of http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php that is what OSE will report, as it will also report any other variations yourdomain.com yourdomain.com/ etc
OSE is purely showing you the links and hrefs that are pointing to your domain, therefore if you have a 301 or rel=canonical on your homepage you are dealing with this correctly.
So in summary, OSE is reporting the different hrefs people are using to link to your site and your homepage is redirecting any incorrect links to the correct place, so all is ok.
Hope that helps
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