Haver ever seen opensiteexplorer be way off?
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What is the deal with this:
http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.selfstoragestartup.com
Based on the links it is showing, there is no way in hell that it should have a domain authority that high. What am i missing here? There is practically nothing on this site, and hardly any backlinks, yet OSE thinks it has a huge PA and DA!?
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Turns out i was wrong. Take a look at this.
Some sort of russian spam has created 1000s of backlinks for this site to the non-www pages. The weirdest part is when you visit those pages, they are forums, full of literally thousands of seo type spam posts full of links. And it gets even weirder. If you google translate those pages, the links to this site are using anchor text that is seemingly irrelevent. Like "buy barbie dolls online" or "best chicken noodle soup". WTF?!
Why would anyone linkbuild like that? is there actually a benefit to having obscure anchor text pointing at your root domain?
This is beyond bizarre.
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It's probably best to send an email to help@seomoz.org and ask the help desk specifically about this. They all know more about how it works than we do here in Q&A, and they can also reprimand Roger if he made any mistakes in this latest crawl.
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seems something may have gone wrong, its showing 2200 root linking domains in the toolbar which is probably where the high da comes from.
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