External Links not showing in MOZ?
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Hello:)
I have a ton of external links on my site, but there not showing on MOZ? The reason i'm slightly concerned is because my top competitor has 80 and I show as only having 3? Does any one know why this would be?
Also, my traffic on MOZ is a lot lower then my traffic report on Google Analytics? Is that normal, & which should I trust more?
Here's my Site: Www.ThumannAgency.com
Thank you in advance:)
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You read my mind!
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No Problem,
Just a heads up in case you don't see where to look at your backlinks in webmaster tools:
Click on " Search Traffic " > " Links to Your Site " and enjoy!
Hope to see you on page 1 soon! Good Luck!
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Thank you so much for doing that for me. I did try and look at my links on Google analytics, but couldn't find them. Probably because I should of been looking in wwbmaster tools. Wow So much to learn. Thanks again.
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Hello,
ran your site through ahref.com and saw 30 backlinks, 17 of which were follow backlinks.
Moz doesn't have the kinda index that ahref and others have, they index bigger sites it seems but not the small fries where most of us are from. This is what leads to the backlink confusion when people check their backlinks on MOZ. While I love moz.com it has always saddened me that their index, doesn't capture the entirety of sites like ones I work on.
You're best place to check backlinks is your google webmaster tools and compare that data with sites like ahref and majestic, even moz just for that off chance they grabbed a link others didn't.
So to sum things up, since Moz.com has a smaller index compared to other sites, your overall metrix are not going to truly reflect your website. Google is still the only spot that gives you really complete datasets to work with, since they're really indexing your site and is what you should focus on the most, use moz, ahref and the like as side by side comparisons to determine what aspects need worked on.
Hope this helps!
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