What is the difference between the link count on OSE and Linkscape?
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We notice a huge difference in the number of inbound links . Site explore shows 1,200 as an example and linkscape shows over 100,000 for the same site.
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Hey James,
Good question! First off, Open Site Explorer actually uses Linkscape for its data, so data from the two sources should be the same. I checked it out and it looks like the root domain of www.hydropoolhottubs.com - which is all of the subdomains under *.hydropoolhottubs.com - has 102,418 total links pointing to it, while the subdomain www.hydropoolhottubs.com has 2,805 links pointing to it. This is probably because you have a lot of links pointing to a subdomain other than www, like to the root domain or to retailer.hydropoolhottubs.com. I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions or if I can do more to explain it better. Cheers!
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James,
Are the 1,200 links Unique linking Domains and the 100,000 link the total incoming links to your site? You might want to double check and make sure your are not comparing unique linking domains with total links to your site.
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