Internal Links Not Registering
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Hey everybody. In Moz when I compare link profiles to my competitors my domain is showing up as only having 4 internal follow links, and 0 nofollow. I know for a fact this is not the case however it is disconcerting.
Is there any reason why Moz wouldn't be able to pick up my internal links? Is there a difference when linking internally by "/page_a" vs actually spelling out the entire URL i.e. "https://www.mysite.com/page_a"
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Hi,
This has happened to me too. Before the changes to domains, I had over 24,000 links showing on my internal links in the Links research. Now I have less than 3000.
I have checked on Search Console and that is still showing as 24,000, but they aren't registering on Moz.
What's changed?
Thanks
Lydia -
Using relative URLs (e.g. /page_a) as opposed to absolute URLs (e.g. https://www.mysite.com/page_a) should **not **be the reason Moz isn't detecting your internal links. There may be other reasons Moz isn't able to crawl and ID internal links on your site: are you using rel=nofollow, or blocking certain parts of your site in your robots.txt file?
While I think Moz is great, I personally do not use Moz for crawling or diagnosing technical problems on my sites (including internal linking). For that, I use Screaming Frog, Sitebulb or DeepCrawl. I hope this helps.
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