Whats with these links
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I have a competitor
that has shot up lately taking number one spot for various keywords when I look
at his links in Open Site Explorer I find many links that are links to downloadable
objects, not web pages.A few
examples, if you click on them, do not open who knows what they are. But what
the story, how are these links to his site, anyone know anything about this.Thanks
http://wolfet.co.uk/etmain/mitchelldown.pk3
http://mobile.earthcam.com/download/EarthCam%20Mobile%20v4.0.msi?faq&page=3956
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Thanks
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Hi Alan,
Ryan is right that these are most likely a result of the way OSE is currently processing things, and they are not really links. The engineering staff has posted an explanation at http://www.seomoz.org/q/how-are-our-competitors-getting-these-inbound-linking-domains, and the help desk can certainly take a look as well to verify that that's what you're seeing.
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It is likely these "links" are actually errors with the OSE or Linkscape software. I would recommend reporting this issue to the SEOmoz help desk. They can examine the raw data and determine what caused this issue and how to fix it going forward.
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