External link count: Raptor SEO check

What we look for

These pages hold more than 100 links to other websites, counting repeats.

Why it matters

A page packed with outbound links can look like a link list to search engines and is harder for visitors to use. Directories and resource pages can be fine.

How to fix

Review the outbound links on these pages and keep the ones that help the reader. Move long link lists to their own page, or split them by topic.

What it cannot know

Any other host name counts as another website here, including your own subdomains.

Where you’ll see it

The id is stable, and every surface uses it, so it’s the thing to search for or hand to an agent.

Terminal: When it is one of the five findings under Fix first, raptor crawl prints the id under it.
Check: links.high_external_outlinks
crawl.json and the CSV: The crawl JSON names the finding by this id, and so do the CSV and raptor_query.
"check_id": "links.high_external_outlinks"
The HTML report: This link opens the finding in the report, and each finding shows its id.
crawl.html#finding=links.high_external_outlinks
MCP: raptor_findings with this check_id returns the finding in full, with a fix brief ready to paste into a task. If it didn’t fire, it says why.
raptor_findings { "job_id": "...", "check_id": "links.high_external_outlinks" }