OSE lists dead links
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Going over the link profile of a competitor who gets 5x the traffic we do.... of course frustrated that the majority of their links are spam blogs (full of words but don't communicate anything) and forum profiles. Thanks Google for telling me what not to do, then rewarding my competitor for doing it shamelessly.
Question regarding sites listed by Open Site Explorer as linking to said competitor, but that don't even load when I visit their url. Some go to a godaddy parked page, like the domain name expired long ago.
Is this simply a limitation of OSE, and can I assume Google has indexed differently and therefore awarding no link juice from these urls?
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Great thanks Casey
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It usually takes a couple of updates to refresh some URL's. OSE is only updated like once a month, so because its there today, doesn't mean it will be there tomorrow.
It sounds to me like you hit a gold mine perhaps with all of those broken links. Google search "broken link building" to take advantage.
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