Do you have nofollow links on your site?

[evejones]

Nofollow links are generally considered to be useless and no good source to drive traffic but this article : No-Follow Links are actually Good (https://www.semrush.com/blog/are-nofollow-links-actually-good-for-seo-here-is-proof/) will drain your confusions out.

[damponting44]

Nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct search engines bots that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index