Why is OSE not showing Google+ bio link in backlink profile?
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Hi fellow mozzers
I wonder why opensiteexplorer (ose) isn't showing Google+ bio links in backlink profile reports of websites that get a link from the "about" page of a Google+ account (+ contributor link).
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Jacob
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That's great news. Thanks for the update.
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Hi Jacob,
Sorry for the late response. We're working on including more links from HTTPS websites (i.e. Google+) which is something we haven't been able to previously do before. But our new crawling technology should be able to handle this no problem. Look for it soon!
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Hi Cyrus,
Any updates about the G+ situation?
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Actually, the specific situation with G+ is an interresting question. Let me ask our engineers about this rand see if we can find some answers going forward.
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Hi Cyrus,
Thank you for responding to my question. I understand the massive job Roger (and the moz team) performs weekly. I was only wondering why specifically Google+ bio's weren't showing up, and if there was a specific reason.
They have excellent authority so we were eager to see the impact on our scores.I understand it's only due to the size of the web that some links e.g. Google+ aren't showing.
Thanks again.
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Hi Jacob,
This isn't uncommon. OSE and Mozscape crawl the web and do their best to report on links most likely to influence rankings and traffic, but they don't report all links. The latest index, I believe, is around 90 Billion links. It's a pretty good index, but we can do better, and have plans to do better going forward:
http://moz.com/products/api/updates
We do a good job of finding/reporting the most important links on the web, but sometimes we miss a few links on less popular pages.
My friend Aaron Wheeler gave this explanation of how our crawlers work:
"We update our Linkscape Index every 3 to 5 weeks. Crawling the whole internet to look for links takes 2-3 weeks. And then we’ve got 1-2 weeks of processing to do on those links to determine which are the most important links etc. You can see a schedule of how often we update, and planned updates here.
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.
I hope this information helps! While the site may not be indexed yet, give it some time – maybe we’ll see it in OSE and Linkscape next month.
Best of luck!
Aaron" -
not only Google Plus Even Facebook & twitter also ignoring. May be OSE put these social sites in filter while calculating the all backlinks
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