Why won't Open Site Explorer detect inbound links from big name websites?

[myers368]

I understand smaller, spammy sites woudn't get indexed, but some of the websites linking to mine have high domain authorities.

The website is a parked subdomain.

[SamWeber]

Thanks for the responses Bruce and TakeshiYoung!

For a full rundown on how we compile our index, check out this post. The best thing to do is to continue focusing on building high quality backlinks. This will improve the chances of your site getting more links indexed.

[BruceA]

Big Name sites are huge and Moz cannot index every page of these sites.  Often the link is buried deep in the Big Name Site and therefore will not be detected.

Try to build links with sites that have good authority, but are a bit more niche.  Remember that links are not everything.  Google is very keen on quality content too.

Hope this helps

Bruce

[TakeshiYoung]

The Open Site Explorer index is only updated once every few weeks, so newer links won't appear in it for a while. In terms of backlink analysis, honestly MajesticSEO and AHREFs provide a lot more data than OSE.