Why aren't certain links showing in SEOMOZ?

[trophycentraltrophiesandawards]

Hi, I have been trying to understand our page rank and domains that are linking to us.  When I look at the list of linking domains, I see some bigger ones are missing and I don't know why.  For example, we are in the Yahoo Directory with a link to trophycentral.com, but SEOMOZ is not showing the link.  If SEOMOZ is not seeing it, my guess is Google is not either, which concerns me.  There are several onther high page rank domains also not showing.  Anyone have any idea why?  Thanks!

BTW, our domain is trophycentral.com

[trophycentraltrophiesandawards]

Thanks - I just looked up our site (www.trophycentral.com) on Google and see many of the missing likes.  My guess is that it is mostly a timing issue.  SEOMOZE is helpful because I can see the ratings and overall estimate, so I guess over time I will look at a few sites.

[xoffie]

This is exactly what i do and have found the same result. In fact, at this moment in time well over half my links don't show in SEOMOZ

[trophycentraltrophiesandawards]

Thanks!  I checked Google and most of them are there! ... Neil.

[ProjectLabs]

SEOMoz's link data is the best available in my opinion but you may want to consider looking at other sources as well like Majestic SEO and Google Webmaster Tools to supplement the SEOMoz data. Sometimes these other sources find links that SEOMoz doesn't have in their index.

[trophycentraltrophiesandawards]

Thank you!

[trophycentraltrophiesandawards]

Thank you!

[JustinTaylor88]

SEOMoz database of links isn't exhaustive and also is only updated once a month or so, so I wouldn't sweat it too much if the links aren't showing up in there.

You can check back links in Google Webmaster Tools, personally i would use WMT over SEOMoz for this kind of info as after all, its Google's data that determines your rankings.

[wrttnwrd]

SEOMOZ crawls and updates their link index on a schedule you can see here:

http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/25141119/Linkscape Schedule

If this is a fairly new link, it may not have gotten indexed yet.

Also, note that page rank may have little or nothing to do with MozRank. Toolbar pagerank is notoriously inaccurate, and could be up to 6 months old. Plus, Toolbar pagerank doesn't reflect all the factors Google uses in PR calculation. And (as if that weren't enough) toolbar PR is based on a sort of Richter Scale - so a jump from, say, 4 to 5 could reflect a HUGE change, or a tiny one.

We normally focus on MozRank, instead.