Is anybody else having great difficulty in finding good link opportunities on Open Site Explorer?
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I've been using OSE for a while now, and I'm struggling to see any value in it. When I search my competitors link profiles, I find just hundreds and hundreds of crappy reciprocal links, splogs or the like. I have to go through days and days (thousands of links) before I find anything worth using.
Is anybody having this sort of problem?
Thanks
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This issue isn't OSE problem, it sounds like its your competitors problem. You should be using it to see what your competitor is doing, then figure out a way on your own to do better than them - Which from the sounds of it shouldn't be too hard.
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I've run in to the same issue with a few of our clients as well, I don't really think it's anything wrong with OSE but moreso an indication that your competition has a history of acquiring bad links. For example, one of our clients' competitors has over 500 links from foreign language websites and they are a local furniture store in Texas. I've begun to use OSE as more of a profile builder for link building as well as a research tool for my competitor's anchor text.
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When I search my competitors link profiles, I find just hundreds and hundreds of crappy reciprocal links, splogs or the like.
Maybe that is a signal that there is easy money to be made?
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