Why would opensite explorer show a link from baidu result page with baidu as a linking root domain?

[duncan274]

I found an old domain that has very high domain authority and one of its top linking root domains is baidu I clicked the link in ose and it took me to a baidu serp?????

please explain...im happy to clarify if need be or give you the site in question just let me know what you think.   I checked ose for the page authority of the serp page it was 50.

would that page be helping the site in question to rank?  or  am I just dumb for asking this question

One more thing I couldnt actually find a link to the page I was looking at in ose on the baidu result page..

thanks

[RobertFisher]

Duncan,

Questions are not dumb unless they are not asked. (my bit of Zen for the morning;).

It is interesting and I have seen it before. Not sure that I can answer why OSE would show it. It would be interesting to see the site/link if you could supply. As to not findig a link to the page, are you saying it was not a SERP result on Baidu? It was in some other way on the page?

Using mozbar, click on page analyses while on Baidu page and open box. When it opens in top right you will see several icons and the second is a white pen. Click or hover over and you will see a dropdown with different colors for highlighting. Click on followed and it will highlight in green all followed links. (assumption is it would be a followed link since it is a serp.) Let us know what you find.

Best,