Show 'Internal Linking' Links
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Tim Soulo
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We have released two reports: "Site Explorer > Backlink profile > Internal links" + "Site Explorer > Pages > Best bu links > Internal tab."
Tim Soulo
Oops. Forgot to update you guys. We have released two reports: "Site Explorer > Backlink profile > Internal links" + "Site Explorer > Pages > Best bu links > Internal tab." So I consider this feature request to be completed :)
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Risto
Tim Soulo: The internal links tools don't work properly, they are not showing all internal links.
One main problem seems to be:
- Navigation links which seem to override the data of other internal links. (But not always, seems random).
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EXAMPLE 1 from Ahrefs site. You want to know all internal anchors of "Site Explorer" page.
- Page A https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer is on the navigation and footer, with anchor "Site Explorer"
- Page B https://ahrefs.com/webmaster-tools which is on navigation and footer, and thus links to Page A from navigation and footer.
- Page B also has in it's content an internal link with anchor "Site Explorer"
- Problem: all internal links tools only show one internal link. Not three, which it should. And they show either the navigation or footer link. Not the one from content. See pics attached.
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EXAMPLE 2
- Page A: Site Explorer
- Page B: https://ahrefs.com/blog/keyword-cannibalization/ which is not in the navigation or footer.
- Page B has 4 links from the content to Page A, all with anchor "Site Explorer"
- Problem: internal links tools show only 1 link, which in this case is from the content. See pics attached.
So it seems to be random what the links tools show.
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As we all know, internal links are one of the most critical tools for rankings, which we can control ourselves. A few thoughts/questions:
- Wouldn't it be nice to know all your internal links and not guess?
- Wouldn't it be nice to not having to search every time from actual code or from CMS all my actual internal links and anchors? Or buy a new tool (some have said Screaming Frog does the work).
- Isn't it important to know if you have too little, or too many internal links with specific anchors? Especially with your most important keywords like "Site explorer".
- And after analyzing the data properly, wouldn't it be nice to optimize the internal links and create maybe some variation. Now it is impossible, or very time taking and manual searching, by not useing ahrefs.
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I hope you get my point, and would address this. Please let me know if you want me to make a new task/suggestion for feature improvement and I will do it. Thanks!
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Niko Kaindl
I think this is related to this request as well: https://ahrefs.canny.io/dashboard/p/include-internal-links-and-internal-redirects-into-ur-rank
Christoph Schachner
Agreed
Would be awesome if you could also see if the internal link comes from the footer or is within the body. Would make the number of internal links much more useful. Then you would actually know how many counting internal links each page has.
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Joseph Robison
Christoph Schachner: Definitely agree with this - it's a pain to tell what's nav vs what's not.
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André Deiß
Joseph Robison: Yes here the same issues. And with internal links you can check even more, other tools show how it works like Screaming... SiteBulb etc. But even they have their weaknesses. I wish SiteAudit would be also better for internal link analyses, follow, nofollow, anchor, title tag of links, better overview etc.
Oak Norton
André Deiß: Agreed. I'd love the tool to give specific advice for optimal links on a page and what kind just to think about it in the right terms, not that I'm always going to hit that mark or even aim for it depending on the content of the page.
Marston Gould
As a follow on - if you took the data from backlinking information, you could determine the amount of link equity that flows to each page.
Tim Soulo
hey guys & girls... We'll soon add internal link counts to Site Explorer > "Best by links" report. But I'm afraid the numbers is all we can add. In order to see the actual linking pages & anchors, you'll have to use a new tool that we're working on right now - Site Audit. So I'm moving this feature there.
Tim Soulo
in progress
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Vote +1
- Show a number of internal links per page.
- Show which internal pages are linking to which and anchor texts.
- Show how many "outgoing" internal links each page has.
- Show a page internal anchor text distribution.
Maybe this will be a feature for the crawler? Anyhow it would be useful to be able to check competitors internal link distribution just by typing in the domain in the site explorer.
Jubaer Prodhan
Vote +1
Internal link excluding the navigation links. Or at-least only from the content body internal links with all the related attributes/metrics.