Sites Blocking Open Site Explorer? Penguin related.
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Last week I was looking at a competitors site who has a link scheme going on and I could actually check the links for each anchor text.
This week they don't work at all, do you think they're blocking the rogerbot on their domains? Or is there a problem with open site explorer?
http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/anchors?site=www.decks.ca
If you're interested in the background, all the links are to instant-home-biz . com which then redirects decks . ca - it's a tricky technique. Pretty much all of the links are from sketchy sites like:
airpr23.vacation-4-free.com/airpr23.blogfreeradio.net/airpr23.blogomatik.com/http://www.morcandirect.com/mortgages/resources2.php which I thought Penguin was supposed to catch…
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Hello Nathan,
It seems that www.decks.ca redirects to www.decks.ca/. The forward slash at the end of the address should be included in your OSE search. Please try that and confirm that it works for you. We apologize for the confusion on this one.
I've confirmed the data displays properly here: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/anchors?site=www.decks.ca%2F
Abe Schmidt
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