Difference between Webmaster and SEOMoz back-link stats?

[onlineexpression]

Hi there,

I just noticed that there are differences between the links to my site showing on my Google Webmaster account and what is showing on my link analysis on SEOMoz. Has anyone noticed this?

In webmaster I am showing 857 links to my site from 92 different domains.

In SEOMoz I am showing 816 links to my site from 53 total linking root domains and only 39 followed domains?

Does anyone know why this there is a difference?

Are the links showing in Webmaster all indexed and followed links?

Thanks in advance

Karl

[onlineexpression]

Thanks guys, great feedback.

I really like the looks of backlink watch; it seems to be a great free tool.

[FranckNlemba]

Hi Karl

Yes, i have also noticed this difference between GWT and OSE and not on only one site but on all the websites i'm in charge.

So don't worry you are not alone. I agree with comments above and think that if you want to have a scrutiny view of your links' profile you should use different tools like GWT, OSE, Majestic SEO, etc...each tool has its own strengh and the result will be a more diverse sample of links.

[mediabase]

Hi Karl, as you had mentioned that you want to check the back links  for your website.I would recommend  you to use this tool Backlinkwatch. I had already used this tool.It is the one of the finest tools that I had seen which is free of cost & provides you all the details with do follow or no follow attribute too.

The tools that you had mentioned above was good but not the best. The Google webmasters tools can't help you to provide the list of all the back links & open site explore tool can provide you some of the back links with the anchor text only 3 or 4 because you had to registered yo get list of all the back links.

That's why I would recommend  you to use backlinkwatch tool to get  list  of all the  backlinks  with anchor text & it is of free not any registration required.

I hope that you will found the solution.

[edwardlewis]

There are quite a lot of posts about this.. OSE doesn't crawl every single page on the internet, so some links may not be listed/discovered. Even Google may not discover all of the links to your site.

Take the figures with a pinch of salt, try not to be so specific, but make sure that both figures are generally always increasing.

[Syed1]

When it comes to links, I'd trust SEOMoz 100x more than any Google's tool, any day.

If you'd like to verify further, I'd suggest comparing SEOMoz  link data with MajesticSEO