Google Webmaster. Backlinks

[priceseo]

GWMT only shows that there are 3 domains pointing to a site of mine. I'm looking under "Links to site".

But this can't be true because the site is pretty old and I know there are hundreds of domains that point to this one.

What would explain this discrepancy? And is there some other free tool that will show all the backlinks?

I've used Opensite explorer but that tool isn't close to comprehensive as GWMT usually is (based on other sites I've analyzed)

[priceseo]

Will GWMT still disavow a list of links even if those links are not listed under GWMT's "links to site" section? I had to use OSE and Bing Webmaster to find the bad backlinks to my site.

Also, didn't Bing had its own disavow tool as well? I don't see it now

[DennisSeymour]

webmaster tools did a clean up on links they show

they used to show a lot more but now they lowered the number of links so that's one reason

Another reason is that the links is probably very old. Ive seen very old links on inactive sites disappear from GWT.

If you use majestic seo, you can see those links in historic mode. In fresh mode, you wont. It's almost the same logic.

[AubbiefromAubenRealty]

Oooh, yes

This is a good question. I am having the exact same issue with my website. In OSE it only shows that we have like 3 linking root domains but we have more under followed back links.

I Just found this out in OSE

"Although we do not currently display a count of total links for this filter set, you can still view all the links by paginating or downloading a CSV (up to 25 links per domain)."

I am curious about what someone more knowledge than myself has to say.  What is GWMT & what are your issues with OSE. It takes a little time to get use to but I understand it pretty well.