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How come SEOMOZ isn't showing the same inbound links that Webmaster Tools does?

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Webmaster Tools shows inbound links that don't show up in SEOMOZ. What is that?
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CraigAddyman last edited by

OSE only about 25% of the size Googles index is
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Jinx14678 last edited by

Hi,

Google's crawler (GoogleBot) has a separate larger database, crawl rate ect... than Open Site Explorer (RogerBot)

I also think in general the OSE index is updated once a month ( i think they are working on making it more often and expanding the crawl database)

Google's index is updated more often than that.

In short, OSE is just a different "snapshot" of the net then Google's much larger database of the web

Hope this helps
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