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Outgoing vs Incomoming Links

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Travis McGinnis

Both of these reports seem to show the same data? Is this broken?
The Outgoing Links Report just shows the Internal Links on the site, just like the Incoming Links Report does.
Knowing the number of outgoing links would be useful for SEO audits.

June 4, 2018

Andrey Kirillov

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Andrey Kirillov

Hi Travis,

This has been fixed. External outgoing links are always shown on Links type chart. Unfortunately we are not able to show their HTTP status code distribution on the second chart until we crawl them, so to make them visible you need to turn on the option called "Check HTTP status of external links" under Project settings.

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June 6, 2018

Andrey Kirillov

Hi Travis,

Thank you for pointing out the problem. By mistake we don't show external outgoing links in this report if the option "Check HTTP status of external links" is not active in the Project settings. This is definitely not right and we will fix it.

Travis McGinnis

Andrey Kirillov: Awesome! Thanks, Andrew!

Travis McGinnis

Will this also update the charts on the Outgoing Links Report in the audit?

Andrey Kirillov

Travis McGinnis: Yes, that's what I mean, after fix external outgoing links will be shown on the charts in the Outgoing Links Report. Currently you can find them in the Data Explorer only.