What's Happened To OSE's External Links For My Site?
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Hi,
I'm just taking my first steps with Open Site Explorer. I've hit a problem that I'd be really grateful for some help with.
I'm running a website (that I didn't create) and want to get a clear picture of the inbound links. When I enter the URL into the OSE search bar, there are no external domains listed under the 'Inbound Links' and 'Linking Domains' tabs. Only internal site links are registered.
Setting the filters, "only external" + "pages on this root domain", under the Inbound Links tab, does bring up a list of external sites. But I haven't had to enter filters just to see a list of inbound links with any other sites. Also, the breakdown under the Linking Domains tab remains the same - only links within my site are shown.
Does this ring a bell? Any ideas what I might be doing wrong, or what might be wrong with my site to cause this problem?
Cheers for helping,
Josh
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If there don't seem to be links to other pages either, could it occur when links are in a different format, e.g.
http://countymotorworks.co.uk/
http://www.countymotorworks.co.uk
Thanks for bearing with me!!
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They are going to other pages on the site but not to the homepage
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Ok, thanks Kenny.
You've answered my question, but as a follow up: How do links accumulate for a root domain but not for a homepage?
Many thanks,
Josh
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It looks like there aren't any external links pointing to your homepage but if you filter to pages on this root domain there are a couple dozen.
You will probably see some more links appear in the upcoming Mozscape Index update.
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Hi Kenny,
Thanks very much for your response and suggestions.
I wasn't sure how necessary the URL would be. Here it is: http://countymotorworks.co.uk/
I'll take another look over the help (this is probably user error!). But if you get a mo to run a quick test with the URL that would be awesome.
Cheers!
Josh
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Hi Josh,
Without knowing the url that you are looking up it's hard to say what the issue is. If you don't want to post it publicly here you can create a support ticket and send it that way. Also, you might want to check out the help documentation for Open Site Explorer to get a better understanding of the tool.
http://www.seomoz.org/help/ose-overview
Have a great day!
Kenny
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