How long does it take Open Site Explorer to register my backlinks?
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I have been using Open Site Explorer for the following website http://www.doorhandlesltd.co.uk/
I have been link building for serveral months now and added over 100 links including directories such as business.com yet when I run the Open Site Explorer report it says I only have 10 root domain links.......the ones that were there before I started my link building.
Any ideas on why this might be? Or does Open Site Explorer take a certain amount of time to collect this data? If so does anybody know how long this takes?
Thanks
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OSE tends to update every 1-2 months. What I do is use linkdiagnosis.com to pull links that are indexed in CSV format, then use OSE to get authority, mozRank and Trust stats. This way you can get all your newly crawled links and get the great OSE insight.
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Yes but the problem I find with Yahoo is that it only lists 1000. And I'm not sure what order these are in.
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Mmm... better the Yahoo SiteExplorer way. the Google link command is absolutely not comprehensive of all the links a site owns.
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Thanks I took a look at the links:domain.com method and I can see a lot of the links that I added.
Basically OSE hasn't updated since I've started. Will be interesting to see how long it takes.
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I have to say OSE is very conservative with the links it lists. I'm not completely sure why, but sometimes major links will not be listed. You can see this if you compare the results of site explorer in yahoo and also the links:domain.com google backlink research method. It's probably not time, OSE, just doesn't like these links.
For example, right now Yahoo site exporer is showing Seomoz.org has 964,000 links to it and OSE shows 24,000. So I recommend trying the yahoo and google approach for assistance.
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The real question here you should ask first is how long does it take for a directory to display your link? You may have added 100 link to directories and such, but do you even know if they are live? If they're not yet published, then obviously no tool will report them to you.
If they are published, you have to think about how often OSE updates its index. Linkscape updates happen about once each month. So if you don't see any new links, wait until the next update and see then. It will take them a while to appear and be found, so just be patient.
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