OSE Too Slow
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I have a client site that's been up since March. GWT reports over 60 linking domains, most of which are relevant and high quality, yet OSE has never shown more than eight
anyone else have similar experience?
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I use Majestic in combination with OSE. The former is great for raw counts and fast discovery, the latter gives me generally more reliable data (in terms of links that still exist, come from relatively stable sources, etc) and better metrics/filters. I thought Eric Enge's comparison was quite good: http://www.stonetemple.com/majestic-seo-open-site-explorer-shootout/
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Sounds great Rand, but until then, to show clients progress, I'm going to have to use one of those barebones list-of-links indices.
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Hi Wayne (and other folks),
Sorry for my delayed response. I agree that this is a serious problem faced by our indices, and it's one we're working to solve. The main issue is how we make a web index. In order to get metrics and all the views that power OSE (as compared to more of the barebones list-of-links offered by some other web indices), we have a lengthy processing step.
This means we can crawl the web for a few weeks, then we need to process for a few weeks, and our processing time often puts us behind other indices in finding and displaying links.
We're working on a way to eliminate this issue, but I suspect it will take 6-9 months to get this in place. In the meantime, we're building a datacenter that can process links more quickly so we can hopefully get better (even if it's not perfect) in the meantime. Look for faster indexing by January/February of 2013, and then much faster discovery by summer.
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I use Raven Tools which gets its link data from majestic. They are pretty decent. A bit behind but also more up to date than OSE in my experience.
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Any chance of sharing some of your other sources?
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Your best bet is to just use GWMT for links for now. I tend to use a variety of sources just to get a feel for what is being crawled. It is still good to check OSE, but I would not use that as your primary method if you have to give client reports or anything.
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I get that OSE is trying to be discriminating and discount spammy non-relevant directory links but most of my links are good quality and highly relevant.
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It is very poor with recognizing links quickly.
In this latest round of updates OSE finally recognized links that I got a year ago. But still is missing a ton of 1 way links that I got from attending a conference in June.
I have been building a lot of 1 way links through networking and yet my DA is going down?? and the links take forever to be picked up.
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Vikas, I have high quality links from the government of Canada which have never appeared in the OSE index.
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Yes I have the same issue. I believe this question should goto seomoz, I made links more than one month back still none of them showing up in OSE today after more than a month.
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