Link to my site not showing up in Open Site Explorer
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If a link to my site on another domain does not appear in the list of links gathered by the Open Site Explorer, does that mean that this backlink will not be crawled by search engine bots? Is there anything I should do to make sure that this link IS crawled and/or recognized by search engines coughGooglecough?
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This often happens to my link profiles too, easy to get paranoid and come to the conclusion that search engines only show us the links they want us to see ......shame Yahoo open Site Explorer gone now too. Try looking in Alexa or Google Webmaster tools .
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Go have a few beers... check OSE in 60 days.
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There could be a number of reasons that it is not showing up in Open Site Explorer. OSE is updated roughly every 30 days, and it may take up to 2 updates for your link to show up in OSE. You can read more on how Open Site Explorer crawls the web and get a few tips on "why isn't there any link data for mu URL" at http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/about#why-isn-t-there-any-link-data-for-my-url
A couple of reasons on why it wouldnt show up (assuming you have waited 2 update cycles):
- There is a problem with the page blocking the crawlers
- There are no links or any way for the crawlers to find the page your link is on. (In this case you have to wonder how valuable this link is anyways. If you think it is of value, submit it to digg or stumbleupon to give it a link for the crawler to find in the next update)
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