How to spot errors in internal link structure?

[ichthyous]

I was wondering if there are any telltale signs that there's a problem with your site's internal linking structure? My site's home page has a PR5, and my category pages range from a PR3-PR6. Yet the PR juice doesn't seem to be flowing evenly within categories or to pages with plenty of internal links pointing to them. For example pages 1-6 of a category will have rank while 7-25 will not, even though they are all interlinked. Please help!

[g1smd]

I run Xenu LinkSleuth over sites every few months to make sure that there are no major spidering problems.

There are very many things that you can mess up with simple typos.

Make sure that you have done all the recommneded domain canonicalisation stuff with 301 redirects too.

[tedster]

For example pages 1-6 of a category will have rank while 7-25 will not

I've seen this with some off-the-shelf portfolio style scripts. The problem might come up when you go beyond a certain number of pages within a category. The top 6 pages collect the most PR because the software only publishes links to 6 pages on the top category page, and it follows those six with a "..."

If you click to page 6, you will see 7,8,9, etc, but at some point again, truncation and only the "..." So everything beyond page 6 gets an extra step in the click path, and therefore less PR.

[ichthyous]

Yes Tedster this was exactly the case with my site...the first 6 page numbers showed and then there was a "...". I changed the code three months ago though to show all the pages at the same time. Unfortunately that means that some categories have 25 page links along the bottom. There's been no change in how the PR is distributed at all and the content on the other pages is still in supplemental status. I am wondering if there isn't something else going on...it seems that my higher level pages which have all the links coming in and rank well just aren't passing much juice downward. Thanks

[ichthyous]

I run Xenu LinkSleuth over sites every few months to make sure that there are no major spidering problems. There are very many things that you can mess up with simple typos.

I just made a sitemap with Xenu recently and all pages were present and accounted for.

Make sure that you have done all the recommneded domain canonicalisation stuff with 301 redirects too.

Yes I have www redirected to non-www...not sure how this would affect some pages having PR and the rest not though...please explain.

[g1smd]

For sites using the www, I often see people saying that www.domain.com/ has some PR but that www.domain.com/somepage.html has none. When I take a look, I see that domain.com/somepage.html has the PR. If you always do a site:www.domain.com search, you may never realise that a whole bunch of pages are indexed as domain.com/.... That's why I mention it here.

[ichthyous]

no I took care of that issue long ago...just checked and site:www.mysite.com produces no results. That still leaves the question though as to why so many of my pages have no PR.

[g1smd]

As you have been a poster here for almost four years, I assumed that you had probably already fixed this long ago.

I wanted to be sure of that, as well as to flag this problem to other people who might not have heard of it before.

[Lorel]

Anyone know of a subsitute for Xenu LinkSleuth for the Mac?

[johnlim9988]

Xenu LinkSleuth? I tried it, but it never ends properly.

Always ends with error. How to do?

[g1smd]

Have you got the latest version? There were some problems like that a year or two back, but I had thought they had been mostly solved.

There was one site, however, that I could never check. It got caught in some loop and as you say, never finished. That is rare.

[johnlim9988]

If XENU got caught in some loop and never finished. Does this mean XENU has problem or the site has problem?

Thanks.

[victor]

Anyone know of a subsitute for Xenu LinkSleuth for the Mac?

A script that will run on many platforms.

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