Open Site Explorer
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Confused by the results displayed in Open Site Explorer.
Want to know the Total Links into a site.
As such typed in the site address and received the result 28 Total Links from 1 Root Domain. Filter Set to This Page.
Therefore, changed the filter to **Pages on This Root Domain. **All other filters set to All (i.e. internal and external links).
I would assume this should give me ALL LINKS coming into all pages. I received results of 79 Total Links from 28 root domains.
Raven and other tools advise a Total number of links in excess of 2,000. External Backlinks 200+.
I have experienced this problem on a number of sites over the past month, in what way am I interpreting the data incorrectly? Why is there such disparity?
Please advise.
Kind regards
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As Frederico says, Open Site Explorer uses the Mozscape link index which only crawls a portion of the internet.
On the front page of Open Site Explorer you'll see some stats about the index: 106 Billion URLs, 150 Million Root domains, 764 Billion Links. While this sounds like a lot - it's nowhere near every link and every domain on the internet!
I believe Raven uses MajecticSEO's link index which may (or may not) index the sites that link to your site hence the disparity between the two.
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OSE doesn't scrape the entire Web, only portion of it. It takes a lot of resources to scrape the entire Web for links, however, the main ones, those that aren't that "hidden" are easily found by OSE.
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