Link explorer section showing different linking domains numbers

[NewDisplayAsi]

Hello Moz, I recently activated my trial version, when I go into link explorer section. The linking domain option on Moz bar showing a different number. when i check the site into ahref, it's showing 14 linking domains, and when i check in Moz it's only showing me 4 linking domains. what is the problem? Which tool showing the accurate result. I am confused. please help.

[samantha.chapman]

Hi there,

Sam from Moz's Help Team here!

So, it's not necessarily that one tool is more accurate than the other but rather that one tool may have more data at the moment.

In regards to Link Explorer (and the data shown in Mozbar), newly discovered links have the ability to be populated into our index in about 1-3 days, however there are a lot of factors which can affect our ability to find and index links to your site. It's important to note that we add new data to our index everyday but it may take some time for us to discover backlinks to your site based on factors like crawlability of the referring pages, quality of the links and the referring pages, and more.

If you are not seeing links or linking domains that you know you have, you may want to make sure that they can be indexed. It is also a good idea to check to see if we've indexed the page on which that link is found. If we haven't indexed the referring page yet, you won't see your link in our index.

You can also add links to Link Tracking Lists. Once you add a link to your tracking lists we will add that page to be crawled. As long as it is accessible to our crawler, you should see the link in our index as soon as we can index those pages.

I hope this helps — let me know if you have any further questions!

[RandyHT]

I have used a variety of backlink checkers over the years and I have found that Ahref has a little more power to it then other backlink checkers.  At least in terms of ferreting out the most number of backlinks. Moz's link explorer might be better in other ways.  I use Majestic SEO myself.