But what impact did this have on external links?

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Removing links and features via user agent detection plugin
Sure, these changes may improve the experience for your users, but it creates a different experience for bots. Let's take a closer look at a site to see how this works.

According to Google, the site has 10,000 pages and according to the new Moz Link Explorer, it has a domain authority of 72 and 22,670 referring domains . However, the site uses a popular australia number data plugin that shortens the content to just the articles and pages on the site, removes links from in-article descriptions on category pages, and removes most, if not all, external links from the sidebar and footer. This particular plugin is used on over 200,000 websites. So, what happens when we )



The difference is startling. First, notice that in the mobile crawl on the left, the number of links per page is clearly lower and the number of links is very stable as you go deeper into the site. This is what creates such a steady, rapid growth curve. Second, notice that the crawl suddenly stops at level four. The site doesn’t have any more pages to serve to the mobile crawler yet! Only 3,000 of the 10,000 pages Google reports were found.

Now, compare this to the desktop crawler. It explodes into pages at level two, accumulating almost twice the total pages crawled by mobile at that level alone. Now, recall the graph before it shows that when we crawled 20,000 sites, there were far more unique desktop pages than shared pages. Here’s a confirmation of how this happens. Ultimately, 6x the content was made available to the desktop crawler at the same level of crawl depth.