Why are none of the links we've received from press and other sources from the last two months showing on our Inbound Links in OSE???
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It's really hard to judge if the DA of our site according to MOZ is 1) up to date and 2) accurate when for example there are SO many inbound links still not recorded, that were published months ago.
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True. Thanks Matt.
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That's an interesting suggestion Joe - thanks. We'll do that!
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Yea I was thinking the same... Not the best feeling given you pay for a PRO account and you expect that at least the information will be accurate... What else have you been doing to monitor your DA then since the data from MOZ seems for now, unreliable?
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The thing is, there's no way to get "all" of your links. WMT doesn't have them, Ahrefs, Majestic, OSE and Open Link Profiler only capture a fraction of the overall links you have.
I am sure that Moz, Ahrefs, Majestic and the rest all do the absolute best they can do with the resources they have. Even Google. But you're never going to get the 100% picture. So the best thing you can do is use as many resources as you have access to and build a list around that.
As far as DA & PA, they're guestimates and they're pretty good but they aren't the be-all & end-all. Any metric you can find online is essentially an estimate.
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Awesome answer, I used https://ahrefs.com and most of my links are contained in there, that's a relief thanks a bunch.
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Hey everyone!
Depending on when we discover your links on those external sites, it can take 2-3 index updates for them to appear.
There are two types of link data we capture: External and Internal Linking pages. In order for us to discover backlinks to your site, we need to crawl the sites and pages linking to you that have high authority. Once we can find those links, we will then be able to crawl your site to find pages you link to and so forth.
Here's how we compile our index:
- We grab the most recent index.
- We take the top 10 billion URLs with the highest MozRank (with a fixed limit on some of the larger domains).
- We start crawling from the top down until we've crawled 90,000,000,000 pages (which is about 35% the amount in Google's index).
Therefore, if the site is not linked to by one of these seed URLs (or one of the URLs linked to by them in the next update) then it won't show up in our index. Check the Just Discovered Links section to see if your link is processing. Links that appear there can take 1-2 updates to show up in inbound links.
Other tools, such as Webmaster Tools, Ahrefs, and Majestic will alway show more link data as they target the quantity of links, while OSE focuses more on quality and Domain Authority (our metric). It’s best to use all the tools you can to obtain a full backlink profile.
Mozscape focuses on a breadth-first approach. Therefore we almost always have content from the homepage of websites, externally linked-to pages, and pages higher up in a site's information hierarchy. However, deep pages that are buried beneath many layers of navigation are sometimes missed and it may be several index updates before we catch all of these. Run a search for those external linking sites and check their domain authority, if it isn't high enough we may not have a reason to re-crawl them to find your new links.
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One thing you can do to get your links found in OSE faster is to make a Bit.ly shortened version of the link and get it clicked. I usually tweet out the links, make sure they get clicked and you should see those pages with the links get crawled and show up within a day or less.
Hope that helps,
Happy Holidays - Joe
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Moz does not specialise in link scanning and they only display a fraction of your actual links in Open Site Explorer. If you want a complete list of your backlinks use your WMT or Ahrefs.
Domain Authority score has actually been invented by Moz so I believe they know how to count that value properly! You might be confusing domain authority with Google's Page Rank which are two entirely different things, although their values are very often similar or the same.
Check this link on how domain authority works and is measured - http://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority
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I get this problem too, been puzzling over it for a while, like you I posted on this concern, but I didn't get a satisfactory answer, is probably worse that you think, by my calculation about half of my inbounds are missing, not very reassuring, but maybe given your expereincing it too, it might be a moz issue.
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