Site explorer Issue
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Hello,
I'm looking to see in the Site Explorer the links coming from directories such as BOW, yahoo etc. I'm listed there from almost 1 year and these links are not listed, the same with my competitors.
I'm missing something?
Thank you
Claudio
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Hi Cladio,
Mozscape doesn't include every link on the web, but it does usually include links that are likely to most influence your rankings. Links on large directory sites, or on pages beneath several layers of navigation, often don't get included.
It's similar to how Google may not crawl/index pages very well on DMOZ - it's a large important site, but there simply isn't enough link juice to spread through all the pages.
(that said, our engineers are working on updates so fewer important links get dropped from the index)
Here's how Moz Help Team manager Aaron Wheeler explained it to a customer:
"Linkscape focuses on a breadth-first approach, and thus we nearly always have content from the homepage of websites, externally linked-to pages and pages higher up in a site’s information hierarchy. However, deep pages that are buried beneath many layers of navigation are sometimes missed and it may be several index updates before we catch all of these.
If our crawlers or data sources are blocked from reaching those URLs, they may not be included in our index (though links that points to those pages will still be available). Finally, the URLs seen by Linkscape must be linked-to by other documents on the web or our index will not include them."
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Jesse,
You're right, the content is the KING, but always is better to know what are doing the rest or not ?
Thank you for your info. usually I use magestic (especially when needs to rebuild the link profile).
Thank you
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OSE does a good job but is not complete.
Consider mixing it with ahrefs.com or Majestic.. always GWT but that won't work for competitors backlinks.
(although honestly I'd worry less about what directories you're linked from and where your competitors backlinks are coming from and more about what kind of engaging content you are able to pump out)
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Dear Mike,
I love Open Site explorer and I know it doesn't list all links, so which tool do you recommends, I'm looking to know exactly in which paid directories (trusted directories) my competitors are listed.
Thank you for your time
Claudio
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It may just be that moz bot hasn't crawled these links and seen them. Open Site Explorer is great but it does have its limitations and should be augmented with other backlink research tools.
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