How can the differences between Moz and Majestic's link totals be explained?
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Hello,
Newbie here so this might be a really daft question....
We've a few accounts and are trialling different software - across a few campaigns, we're seeing big differences in link numbers from different software (namely Moz and Majestic).
I'm assuming there is a really good reason for it - just can't find what it is!
Thanks in advance!
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Can you give an example where SEOmoz and OSE are different? I'm not quite sure I follow you, since Open Site Explorer is an SEOmoz product.
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Quick question then - how come Moz and OSE are different?
Any help appreciated!
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Neither crawls the whole internet, same with bing Yahoo and Google each have a different index.
SEOMoz tries to crawl the pages that matter. I would suggest the links you find in most indexes are the better ones.
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