External links that don't exist
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I did a crawl test and it shows that there are 2215 external links on my home page here:
https://www.playshakespeare.com
An "External Link" is defined here:
https://moz.com/researchtools/crawl-test
"Number of links on a page that point to a page that is not on the same domain as that page."
There are NOT 2215 external links on that page. There are only a handful at any given time. Why is the crawl test reporting thousands over that?
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Hi,
I did a quick crawl of your site with Screaming Frog - your site seems to generate a lot of time outs & 5xx errors - could be that these are seen as external links by Moz. Response times are very bad for most of your pages.
Dirk
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Hello,
I understand there are many links on the page, but the crawl test reports External links, not internal.
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I checked your site with a plugin - and it seems to have more than 1800 links - don't forget that the links in the navigation - even if not visible still count as link.
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