Open Site Explorer
-
Confused by the results displayed in Open Site Explorer.
Want to know the Total Links into a site.
As such typed in the site address and received the result 28 Total Links from 1 Root Domain. Filter Set to This Page.
Therefore, changed the filter to **Pages on This Root Domain. **All other filters set to All (i.e. internal and external links).
I would assume this should give me ALL LINKS coming into all pages. I received results of 79 Total Links from 28 root domains.
Raven and other tools advise a Total number of links in excess of 2,000. External Backlinks 200+.
I have experienced this problem on a number of sites over the past month, in what way am I interpreting the data incorrectly? Why is there such disparity?
Please advise.
Kind regards
-
As Frederico says, Open Site Explorer uses the Mozscape link index which only crawls a portion of the internet.
On the front page of Open Site Explorer you'll see some stats about the index: 106 Billion URLs, 150 Million Root domains, 764 Billion Links. While this sounds like a lot - it's nowhere near every link and every domain on the internet!
I believe Raven uses MajecticSEO's link index which may (or may not) index the sites that link to your site hence the disparity between the two.
-
OSE doesn't scrape the entire Web, only portion of it. It takes a lot of resources to scrape the entire Web for links, however, the main ones, those that aren't that "hidden" are easily found by OSE.
Got a burning SEO question?
Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
How to increase the DA of a site?
I have done work on my site for 6 months, and still, I cannot find any progress because the DA in the MOZ is not increasing, and of course, I'm not getting rankings. What should I do now? I have been producing unique and new content too. Check my Site: http://www.apksoldier.com/avg-cleaner-pro-apk/
Link Explorer | | ndjkiu770 -
Ranking keywords are not showing for my site
Hi, I have started my website 6 months ago and many of my site's keywords are ranking but when I explore my site Get YoWhatsApp in Moz site explorer, it doesn't show ranking keywords there, I'm a little bit confused about this, when my site's keywords will be shown there? Atqd4Bf
Link Explorer | | GetYoWhatsApp0 -
Why Moz Link Explorer is showing wrong data?
Hi everyone. I am using Moz Link Explorer to find relevant links from competitors and when I narrow it down to Link Type: Follow Status: Active I get the list. All good here... BUT ... Inspecting the actual link on the page there is a no=follow attached to it. Is this feature still working properly on the new Link Explorer or is a bug? Thanks!
Link Explorer | | Sorin_T0 -
Open Site Explorer Showing Blank Screen
Hi Moz Community, When I go to search for backlinks for any site, I am getting a blank screen after starting the search. This is happening to every search I perform for any URL or root domain. It's been happening for about a week now and I am not able to find any solutions. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Ryan
Link Explorer | | RyanRhodesGW0 -
Why do my spammy backlinks still appear on my Open Site Explorer page after removal?
I used the organic spam backlink removal tactic of emailing owners of sites of spam rank 7 or higher on my page. It has been weeks since many of the harmful links were removed, yet they remain listed on my Open site Explorer page. My fear is that somehow simply getting these links removed doesn't exempt me from the potential to be penalized by Google crawlers. Does it take longer than a few weeks for these links to disappear from the Open Site Explorer, or is there something else I need to be doing? Any and all advice appreciated. Ben
Link Explorer | | SOLVISTA0 -
Open Site Explorer metrics report says we have 9 linking root domains, but way more than 7 are listen. What gives?
When I run a report on my website in OSE (SelectAccount" metrics tells me we have 7 "established" root domains and 9 total links. But the detailed report below has many dozens of links. What is metrics telling me?
Link Explorer | | SelectAccount0 -
Since January 24 Open Site Explorer has not provided new data
Using OSE we've been tracking our stats and our competitors stats on a weekly basis to see how we're doing. We've noticed that since Jan 24,2014 the numbers for us and our competitors have been the EXACTLY same. What's going on with OSE? Company_01.png
Link Explorer | | EricksonCoaching0 -
Open Site Explorer not detecting linking domain on my site
So I was using Open Site Explorer to analyze my domain authority and page authority as can be seen here. My site has been covered by some press and in the article it actually links my site. Some of the articles can be seen on, here, here, and here. Any idea why none of these articles are detected as a linking domain to my site? Is there something that I am doing wrong?
Link Explorer | | herlamba1