Manta inbound link in OSE - competitor site yes, my site no, why?
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Our site has had a link back to our site from Manta for a long time, but it's not appearing in our OSE results. One of our competitors similarly has an inbound link from Manta and that link DOES appear in their OSE results.
I'm not certain whether that matters for us. Does it?
But in any event, why would the one link appear but not the other?
Thanks!
- Tim
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Thanks again. I hadn't looked at the Bing WMT set. Interesting and useful. Thanks!
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Thank you for taking time to answer my questions. I appreciate your help!
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If you do a search like site:domain.com it will show all the pages in the index for that domain.
you can see if the page with your link is included,
You can list your site in GWMT (google webmaster tools) and (Bing web master tools) both of these will give you a list of links pointing to your site, none of these lists are complete, but i find the BIng list to be the best.
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Thank you for taking time to reply to my question. I appreciate your help!
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"Check to see if your Manta listing is in Google's index."
How can I do that? Sorry, I'm really new to all this.
Thanks,
Tim
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Alan is right on. OSE is a great and amazing tool, but it can't be relied upon for 100% accurate link counts. If you know you have the link, you have the link.
Check to see if your Manta listing is in Google's index. If it is, Google knows you have the link. That is what is really important.
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OSE does not include every page on the internet, or every page of a given website, in fact i remember reading that they tuned it to read less of any given one site in order to read more sites.
It may be that the crawler comes across your competitor’s link before it moves on, but unfortunately does not comes across yours.OSE is a good indicator, but not entorly acurate, but things should average out, there would be links on all sites that are not found.
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