Trying to boost Backlinks but OSE still shows same figures for past month
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I often check Open site explorer to see if I increased in linking root domains to my site after getting some backlinks on it. I have a concern about the number it is displaying:
How does this statistic get updated? If I spread backlinks on some sites do i have to do anything else like ping it so google can crawl it so OSE sees it and counts it towards my linking root domain statistic? Is this current figure OSE is reading from cache and giving me an outdated number?
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You might also check out Rand's recent post about how OSE works for some more general information.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/linkscape-september-update-feedback
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I think most people who use OSE find that it will take 4 to 6 weeks typically to see new linking root domains. One issue many have as OSE has some links it does not show for whatever reason. On the whole it is a good tool, but you are not going to see all linking root domains based on my experience.
An example would be one of our managed sites: actosassistance In OSE it shows only 8 linking root domains while in Yahoo Site Explorer it shows 17 (of which 5 are actually one root domain and the differing urls are listed as roots). Before the OSE update, Dmoz showed as a link to this site and no longer does. It still links to site and shows in Yahoo Site Explorer.
For most of the SEO tools on the web I find they are like sailboats (if you've sailed it makes more sense): there are fast sail boats and cruising sail boats and variations in between, there are no fast cruisers. So, in getting a sail boat you have to make compromises. With OSE, the compromise to me is I get quality data in DA, PA, mozRank, mozTrust, and links along with CSV download, etc. I just don't get to see every link.
As to pinging, etc. I do not think it is necessary. Like with any indexing, the more/better links you get, the sooner, more frequently you will be spidered. I would suggest the SEO for Chrome extension so that you see more of your links as it shows Yahoo, Majestic, OSE, etc It might provide more of what you are looking for.
Hope this helps.
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Hi,
OSE is updated every month or so as per the OSE update schedule. Usually when it happens rand posts up a blog on the main site letting people know an update has taken place.
Also OSE whilst it is great it does not crawl the whole web also benchmark your links built from data in Google Webmaster tools - back links data section.
Regards,
James Norquay
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