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Scott,

Thanks for sticking with me.  That's interesting.

Interesting that I couldn't find it when I used the search bar.  But I scrolled through the comments, and did indeed find it.

Thanks so much for your post. Super appreciated.

A

Scott,

Thanks so much for getting back to me.

The thing is there were about 30 back links to racingsecretsexposed on design-studio.com Are you suggesting that all 30 of those links were erased since OSE last did it's analysis?  That seems unlikely, given that usually folks like to keep all their blog posts.  I'm assuming that's where the links were. Why would they erase them?

I just spoke with someone who says there is a way to get back links on a site without actually having those links show up on that site-you can only see them through a program like opensiteexplorer but not if you do a google search.  Does that sound right?  How and why would you do that, and is that kosher or considered a black hat tactic?

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I am new to SEO Moz - It looks like incredible technology.  I was playing around with different websites to see where they had back linked to see how it works.

Looked at a site called racingsecretsexposed [dot] come and it said that it had dozens of links to www.ndesignstudio.com such as:  ndesign-studio.com/blog/best-wordpress-sites?replytocom=893 with link anchor text "laying horses" but when I do a search for the company name, or the anchor text "laying horses", or the owner of the company's name on ndesignstudio.com - nothing appears.

Why not?

Isn't the back link anchored by the text laying horses, which should link back to the racing secrets website?

Thanks