What is the difference between External Followed Links, Total External Links and Total Links?
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What is the difference between Total External Links and Total Links?
Below is my metric and 3 competitors.
| External Followed Links | 12 | 43 | 227 | 5 |
| Total External Links | 19 | 51 | 296 | 11 |
| Total Links | 2,990 | 704 | 15,234 | 12,518 | -
Hey Frank,
SoleGraphics is correct in his definitions. I also checked your domain and that's correct. Your total link profile is 99.31% internal.
Thanks!
Joel. -
It seems my data is way off. See the info below for my site and competitors. If i only have 15 external links that would mean the other 2,971 are internal?
External Followed Links 11 11 224 4
Total External Links 15 12 292 10
Total Links 2,986 649 14,996 12,517 -
External followed are all external do follow links
Total external is all external links
Total links is all external and internal links
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