How does TTH have only 220 Domain Backlinks?
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Was looking at these guys today http://www.tentonhammer.com/ One of the orginal games websites, an authority in its niche and 7 years old (about as long as that niche has existed)
Its all unique, high quality content but it has a only 220 linking domains, including BBC etc
It doesnt make any sense to me that this website should have so few linking domains. Anyone have a thought as to whats going on here?
S
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Cheers Pete
I had a look at Majestic and they are reporting about 40k links, which seems the correct order of magnitude
I know they used to have each game on a subdomain and they now seem to redirect to the subfolder. Ill have a closer look then, possibly they mucked up their redirects
tx
EDIT, just checked, I get both www and non www resolving fine (they should 301 one or the other, but as it stands both work for me)
Their old subdomains ddo.tentonhammer correctly 301 redirect to tentonhammer.com/doo
weirdly swtor.tentonhammer.com redirects to swtorhub.com tho
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Looks like they may have a ton of links to deep pages on sub-domains (like forums.tentonhammer.com), so we're not reporting the count right across the root domain. Once I dig in and export data, it's making more sense.
They're also doing something weird on the root domain - tentonhammer.com seems to redirect to www.tentonhammer.com, if you type it in, but then header checkers read it as a 200. So, we don't seem to be consolidating those links, either. I suspect that 220 number is way low.
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That figure from Open Site Explorer does seem odd.
I used to be a mod for IGN / Vault Network so I'm very familar with TTH.
I am new to the tool, but the site is a top 30k global site and according to google has 181,000 in links. I can't imagine only 220 root domains generating that.
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The SEOMOZ Plugin for Chrome.
Link Data Tab.
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Im doing this search http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?page=1&site=www.tentonhammer.com&sort=page_authority&filter=follow&source=external&target=domain&group=0
Where are you getting the 786k figure from?
cheers
S
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Hi Stephan
If you scan mentions of the brand using Google, you see far more montions than 220.
If these numbers are coming from OSE it can be the case that the numbers are not that high in some cases. I would also use a histroic view on Majestic too.
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<a id="domain_name" title=".tentonhammer.com">.tentonhammer.com - 786,856 Bl's</a>
Where are you only seeing 220?
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Do they have anything link worthy? Are there forums established just for this game? I was active on tons of Diablo 2 forums back in the day, but not all games interact the same way.
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