Why is Moz not crawling my backlinks
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Hi my website www.dealwithautism.com is 3 months old and has been on DA 1 and PA1 ever since, even though the site is actively developed with quality content (a couple of posts already have 1k+ fb likes acquired editorially, while that doesnt necessarily improve SERP, it sure tells you that the post is engaging).
In contrast another site of mine, www.deckmymac.com which is hardly ever managed, not have more than 15 posts and just 1 backlink, has DA 14.
Running an on page analysis on www.dealwithautism.com I observed that Moz has not identified any backlinks nor social signals (except G+). However, according to Webmasters, I have 57 links, 51 of them to the root. Even Majestic is able to report 32+ backlinks.
So what am I missing? Certainly, at this stage my website doesn't deserve DA 1, or does it?
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Hey Ashish!
Felicia linked me to your thread.
There are two types of link data we capture: External and Internal Linking pages. In order for us to discover backlinks to your site, we need to crawl the sites and pages linking to you. Once we can find those links, we will then be able to crawl your site to find pages you link to and so forth. Comment sections are not typically a good place to build backlinks as those sections on sites can be abused and come across as spammy. Run a search on OSE for the sites linking to you, check out their DA/PA to see if those sites have any influence that would help with discovering your links. Search other sites you can try to build your links on with high authority. The more sites linking to you, the better.
Here is how we compile our index.
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We grab the most recent index.
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We take the top 10 billion URLs with the highest MozRank (with a fixed limit on some of the larger domains).
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We start crawling from the top down until we've crawled 90,000,000,000 pages (which is about 35% the amount in Google's index).
Therefore, if the site is not linked to by one of these seed URLs (or one of the URLs linked to by them in the next update) then it won't show up in our index.
Other tools, such as Webmaster Tools, Ahrefs, and Majestic will alway show more link data as they target the quantity of links, while OSE focuses more on quality and Domain Authority. It’s best to use all the tools you can to obtain a full backlink profile.
Mozscape focuses on a breadth-first approach. Therefore we almost always have content from the homepage of websites, externally linked-to pages, and pages higher up in a site's information hierarchy. However, deep pages that are buried beneath many layers of navigation are sometimes missed and it may be several index updates before we catch all of these.
We update once a month and you can view the next scheduled update here: http://moz.com/products/api/updates
Hope this helps!
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Thanks Donford,
Cool will do that. Thanks mate!
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Okay, then likely it is Moz not able to get to all these sites for indexing. I have seen this question many times, you'll note other services have different back link profiles. I have always used Yahoo Site Explorer myself. However, with the Yahoo/Bing alliance this hasn't been working as of late.
Possibly a Moz Staffer will see this and provide more insight. But I wouldn't hesitate to drop Moz a direct email, every staff member I have engaged with is extremely nice and informative.
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Hi Donford.
Its been just about a couple of months, but my site has already been crawled at least 5-6 times during this period.
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Hi Ashish,
How much time has elapsed since you been tracking with Moz? Typically Moz does an once a month.
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