Backlink Profile in Webmaster Tools
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The quest for the "accurate" backlink profile never ends. We now have Webmaster Tools to help us with this search. My question is whether the backlink profile according to WT is the backlink profile according to Google. Do Google's search algorithms and WT synch up? If this is the case, forget OSE and MajesticSEO, WT will be the main backlink analysis tool I use going forward. Thanks for any insight.
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I tend to see links from webmaster tools containing a sizable number of actual links. Their index is bigger than any other service like OSE or Majestic. If you're watching the latest links, they do tend to be accurate as well. I'm a subscriber to OSE, Majestic & Ahrefs. On my big sites, I always turn to WMT's now for the total # of links.
OSE still provides metrics with integrity. Majestic and Ahref's pickup fresh links before WMT's displays them. Google may actually find them first, but they do not push out fresh link data every day.
You're also going to miss out on clique hunter, competitor links and you'll risk spending a lot of time in Excel should you opt-out of the third party services.
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