Open Site Explorer Doesn't Discover Link for my website
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Hi, I've been trying to use Open Site Explorer to track link to my own website but it always comes up with no data and shows me this message:
It looks like we haven't discovered link data for this site or URL.
However, this site has been up and running for more than 9 months and google webmaster can track all the links to my website. I've also followed MOZ's support instruction to tweet a bit.ly links with my website but still no luck at all. My website is www.carpetcleanerperthwa.com.au
Has anyone seen the same problem before? Any help would be much appreaciated.
Thanks
Will
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this is where the additional feature of when Moz last crawled a page would be great, but as this page has a PA of 1 and no known links, I would guess Moz hasn't crawled the page / found the page just yet.
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Hi Andy,
Thanks for your response. This is a URL that my home page is linked to:
http://www.truelocal.com.au/business/carpet-cleaner-perth-wa/maddington
Thanks again.
Will
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These are large sites which I am guessing Moz is visiting fairly frequently and its great you have got a link from Google.com, however I was hoping you could send me the actual urls of where your links are located.
I had a similar problem in the fact I linked from our main site (DA of 68) to a brand site and the link still isn't showing up in Moz, but when I did some digging it turns out it was my developers / designers mistakes as it wasn't that easy for a bot to get to that page - so Moz was crawling the site, but the page with the link wasn't easily reachable hence why Moz hadn't found the link etc.
What would be a good feature would be like with Google you can see the last time a page was crawled, if Moz had a similar feature.
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Hi All - Thank you for all the response - All useful tips from different perspective!
I could use WMT but I really want to get OSE working for my website because it gives details analysis about my website and my competitors side by side.
Andy: Here are linked domains that show up in WMT. Very much appreciated your help.
| backpage.com | | |
| truelocal.com.au | | |
| google.com |Many Thanks
Will
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If you want the bes tool for link discovery or link checking use https://ahrefs.com/
I use OSE, I use Semrush, I tried MajesticSeo, in my opinion no one is near ahrefs when it comes to discover links.
I am a happy user of OSE, and I think MOZ algorithm calculating DA, PA MozRank, etc... Is doing an excellent work and OSE is always my first stop when I want to evaluate and compare websites or pages.
But no other tool I tried is close to ahrefs for link discovery.
Of course you are already using GWT, right?
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Hi Will,
Sorry for the confusion with OSE! A key thing to remember about having your links appear in OSE, is that it isn't about your links as much as it is about who links to your links :). OSE's crawl starts from a seed set of trusted sites and crawls links to discover new content in a trickle-down fashion. Therefore, the more sites with high authority that are found linking to you, the more likely your link is to be recognized in the index. This process is also time sensitive so fresher links are prioritized; meaning that consistent updates to your link building will behoove you.
As Andy mentioned, this process can take a good deal of time. There is no finite time frame that can be guaranteed for when your links will appear. The best thing I can encourage is to start building relationships with the sites that link to you (visible from Google Webmaster Tools, as Andy also referenced), as well as with high authority sites that you want to link to you.
Using the bit.ly link is a great way to get your foot in the door, so to speak. The optimal way to do this is by tweeting a link to a linking page (the link for a site that links to you). The other portion is that you need at least one other person to follow that link. Then you should be on your way!
I hope this helps to clarify the process! Feel free to let me know if you have any questions, and have a great day!
Jordan
Moz Help Team
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While moz is a great company, Google has hundreds more servers than Moz so is able to dig further and deeper into the internet to see more links.
Moz last month crawled and indexed 166 billion pages http://moz.com/products/api/updates so this means there is still a large part of the net which hasn't been crawled by moz. They tend to crawl the larger more reputable sites and follow those links, rather than the smaller / black hat sites. They also can't crawl every site in every country so do tend to focus more where they have more demand from their customers (US etc), but your in Australia so I wouldn't have thought this would be an issue.
It actually took 4 months for my link from my Moz profile to show in Opensiteexplorer so even they don't crawl their own site that often.
Where are most of your current links from (that are appearing in webmaster tools). Have you checked these urls in Opensiteexplorer to see if these have been found by moz.
Google obviously has to crawl the entire web (or as much as they can) to offer the best user experience for when searching, plus people want their sites to appear in Google so submit sitemaps etc to them. Whereas and I don't know if this is techncially possible but I am assuming it is, the sites where you have got links could potentially stop moz from crawling their sites. In that case, your links would never appear.
If you could let me know a couple of the links that are appearing in WMTs I will take a look for you.
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