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What is the difference between "Referring Pages" and "Total Backlinks" [on Ahrefs]?
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I always thought they were essentially the same thing myself but appears there may be a difference?
Any one care to help me out?
Cheers!
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Referring pages is the amount of pages (URLS) pointing to your site.
Total backlinks is the total amount of links you have to your site.
Example: 10 pages have 2 links to your site.
Referring Pages: 10
Total Backlinks: 20 -
Hi Paul,
There are many things this could mean to Ahrefs, so I can only really suggest contacting their own support to get the real meaning of what this is. I could make educated guesses, but they could still be wrong and would hate to misinform you.
-Andy
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