Difference between External Followed Links and Total External Links?
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Hello, could someone please elaborate on what is meant by "External Followed Links" vs. "Total External Links"? Does "External Followed Links" mean the number of links that are generating traffic to the site? Or is there some other way to conceptualize it? Any help would be appreciated!
Thank you in advance.
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Just beat me to it.
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Hi,
External Followed Links: means that the links are "followed" by search engines and pass SEO value to the site they are pointing to.
Total External Links: includes links that are both "follow" and "no-follow". No-follow links pass no SEO value onto the sites they are pointing to.
Read this blog for a bit more info on the above.
Hope this helps
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Total External Links are all of the links to the site.
External Followed Links are just those links to the site that are followed (they do not have a "nofollow" tag added to the link).
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