Linking Root Domain does not show twitter
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I wonder what it takes to capture twitter as a backlink. We have a twitter account @idyllicsoftware which never occurs in open site explorer. Also it never shows newer back links. Could you suggest how to use it better?
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That helps. Thank you for your responses.
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That's a great question. I'll see if I can shed some light on the issue for you.
If I understand your question correctly, you're wondering why Twitter doesn't show up as a backlink to your homepage, http://www.idyllic-software.com/, in Open Site Explorer or any of the other SEOmoz tools. Is that correct?
(I'm referencing this report here: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/domains?page=1&site=www.idyllic-software.com%2F&sort=domain_authority&target=domain)
It does seem strange, because OSE has indexed your twitter account. We can verify that here: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?site=twitter.com%2Fidyllicsoftware
With a Page Authority of 48, that usually would be high enough for Linkscape to index the link to your site on your Twitter page. Unfortunately, Linkscape isn't foolproof, and sometimes it does miss links, especially if there aren't a lot of inbound pages to the linking page in question. (sorry if this seems like a circular argument)
My suspicion is because Linkscape has only indexed three inbound links to your Twitter page, there isn't enough Authority present to follow the links found there. The only solution is to build more, high quality links to your Twitter page to ensure the links get indexed.
That's the bad news. The good news is that the links are obviously there, Google can see them, and if Twitter links count for anything, then you are getting full credit, regardless if they show up in Linkscape or not. Oftentimes you'll see edge cases like this where a link appears in one index but not another. Moz is working on doubling the size of the current index, so there's a good chance you'll see your links in an upcoming update.
Hope this helps! Best of luck with your SEO.
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When you get a link through from Twitter (i.e. through someone tweeting your blog post or re-tweeting your tweet with a link to your website), the root domain that it will appear as will be 't.co'.
't.co' is a link shortening service that Twitter uses so any links to your website showing in open site explorer coming from this root domain are from Twitter.
Hope this has helped.
Matt.
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