Links aren't showing up in SEOMOZ resports
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Hi,
I've been building links to my client's website for the past 3 weeks. I know that there are several sites that link to my client's website now but SEOMOZ's link analyses says there aren't any sites linking to my client's website.
Anybody know what's up with that?
Sincerely,
Rex
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Yep - crawls are at intervals. If you go to opensiteexplorer you'll see "Last Index Update: Oct. 8th 2012" (or whichever other date it is. We all have to be patient. I'm also waiting for one of my sites to show the latest changes. For a current client who wants changes by peak season in December - January, I'm already rolling out changes now. Good luck
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Seomoz updates opensiteexplorer Index at least every 4 weeks
Looks like the next update is on Monday, Nov 5, 2012. Right around the corner.
https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule
I hope after 5 November when you check your links. You see different report.
Thanks KLLC
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There are two factors you need to consider here:
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SEOmoz updates Linkscape on about a monthly interval. You can see the next update is scheduled on November 5th. https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule
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Linkscape crawls a sample portion of the web. There is no guarantee your link is going to be found by Roger.
Here is what I would do for the client:
- Keep your own spreadsheet with the links that you've built.
- Download the 'latest links' report in Google Webmaster Tools. This seems update only a few days behind.
- If a link doesn't appear in GWT, perhaps the page you got the link from is not indexed. Post it on G+, Tweet it, whatever. Try to get it indexed.
Open Site Explorer is a great tool for analyzing backlinks and for trends, but it is not perfect. No backlink analysis tool is. It may show a link you've built one month only to disappear the next month because Roger crawled a different set of pages. That doesn't mean your link has disappeared or has any less value to Google.
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Rex,
Another thing you may want to do, check Google Webmasters. Sometimes the information on there is updated faster than the SEOmoz tool.
Best Regards
ST
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Hi Rex,
It takes time for the the Link Analysis to crawl through the pages and links associated with them.
I have had links to my site which were created over 6 weeks ago which are beginning to filter through to the system now.
Be patient and your hard work of creating (the high quality, industry specific) links will show.
Thanks
ST
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