No backlinks reporting in MOZ OSE?
-
-
Thanks Tawny,
It has been well over a month and I am not new to using MOZ but simply trying to figure out how long the latency is... I will read up on the API. Thank you for the information.
-
Hey there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here. I think I can help explain why you're not seeing all the same links you might see with other tools. It has to do with our Mozscape Index, which powers Open Site Explorer.
Open Site Explorer and the Link Analysis page of campaigns are both tied to our Mozscape index, which tends to update roughly once a month.
Just a few points on how we compile our index:
- We grab the most recent index.
- We take the top 10 billion URLs with the highest MozRank (with a fixed limit on some of the larger domains).
- We start crawling from the top down until we've crawled ~130 billion URLs
The idea here is that we're focusing on the highest-quality links we can find, coming from the most prominent pages of authoritative sites. So, while you may not see every link for a site within our index, we're aiming to report the most valuable ones available!
Most new sites and links will be indexed by our spiders and available in Mozscape and Open Site Explorer within 60 days, but some take even longer for many reasons - including the crawl-ability of sites, the number of inbound links to them, and the depth of pages in subdirectories. This biases our tool slightly in favor of newer links; Open Site Explorer only caches older links for about 180 days, so unless the tools re-crawl and index those links, they may fall out of our index after a while.
You can see our most recently updated schedule here as well as some more technical metrics on our Mozscape API Updates page. You can also see when the last and next updates happened on the Open Site Explorer (OSE) homepage at any time.
Since Moz focuses on quality of links over quantity, we are always focused on the most relevant links to display to our users. It's possible that Moz's index will leave out some of the lower-quality (non-link juice providing) links out of our index because of this. So, that might explain why you may see some discrepancies with what other tools may be showing.
I know this is a ton of information, so if you have any questions or if I didn't make anything clear enough, please don't hesitate to ask! Just shoot us a note over at help@moz.com and we'll do our best to help you out.
-
Hello Sean!
Fist of all you should keep in mind that Moz, as any other backlinks profiler, crawls from time to time the web searching for those backlinks. Ahrefs does it every day, and some times several times a day. Moz does it once a month or so, and they usually find less backlinks (in number) than Ahrefs.
It is a good opportunity to mark and advise to never use only one tool/platform. Always complement with others. Nowadays, there 4 great tools and complement each other in the backlink profiling: Moz, Ahrefs, Majestic and SEMrush (just my opinion).It is really possible that in the last crawls your site wasnt in the radar of moz's crawls. It might be because of not being linked enough or not being linked in any way from the bunch of pages that RogerBot (the Moz's crawler) starts its crawls.
You should be worried about OSE not showing your backlinks. They will eventually be indexed in.Hope I've helped.
Best luck!
GR
Got a burning SEO question?
Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
Unsolved Why is Moz so bad at finding lost backlinks?
0 -
Reporting on earlier dates
Does anyone know if I can see a report on linking domains for a date in the past? We have seen a big drop. Screenshot 2021-10-24 at 10.09.43.png
Link Explorer | | damianedwards0 -
Moz isn't crawling all my backlinks.
Moz isn't crawling all my backlinks. It's showing only 29 referring domain when I have more than 200 referring domains linking to my website. My website URL is 360gisthub.com.ng 360gisthub.com.ng
Link Explorer | | Mustybay0 -
My company has about 70 live pages. Moz crawled 6k. Why?
My company has about 70 live, published pages on our website, which is managed through HubSpot. When Moz crawled the URL, it found 6K+. I noticed several were URLs with a campaign tag. Is this normal? It seems excessive to me. If there's a problem, how do I fix it?
Link Explorer | | ActionableResearch1 -
Why Moz Link Explorer is showing wrong data?
Hi everyone. I am using Moz Link Explorer to find relevant links from competitors and when I narrow it down to Link Type: Follow Status: Active I get the list. All good here... BUT ... Inspecting the actual link on the page there is a no=follow attached to it. Is this feature still working properly on the new Link Explorer or is a bug? Thanks!
Link Explorer | | Sorin_T0 -
Can I increase my DA with backlinks pointing to the www version ?
Hello Guys, I hope I am posting this in the right section... I was wondering something... I use the www version for my website, So I set the cannonicalisation and the 301 Redirect of non-www to www version. But I checked my website on MOZ (Open Site Explorer) and when I type in mywebsite.com I get 19 DA and 1 PA. When I typed in www,mywebsite.com I get 19 DA and 32 PA. So i would like to have some clarifications about how their domain authority and page authority system work. My PA of the www version is higher than my DA because almost all my link point to the www version and I do the 301 redirect. ? But how can I increase my DA if I focus on building backlink to the www version of my website ? Should I build link to the non-www version of my website to increase my DA even if I use the www version for my website ? If I build backlink to the non-www version, will it increase the PA of the www version since it's has a 301 redirect ? If I build backlink to the www version of my website will it increase the DA of my website ? Im really confused here so any help and clarification from you guys will be really appreciated. Thank You.
Link Explorer | | majesticlub0 -
Unable to download CSV Report
Hi, I have the email notifying me that my report is ready to download but the link simply opens a blank webpage. If I go to 'Recent CSV Reports' I can see my report listed but if I click the download button nothing happens. Can anyone suggest a solution? Thanks Hugh
Link Explorer | | HLConsulting0 -
Moz & Other Sites Not Showing in Link Profile?
I'm curious to know why Moz, YouTube, G+ and some other links are not showing the OSE link profile as NOFOLLOW or DOFOLLOW for our website whiteboardcreations.com? When doing analysis, we see a lot of companies YouTube pages with their NF link and G+ page links and even see a lot of the Moz community members with their Profile pages showing the NF link or the DF links. I'm confused as to why OSE is not picking up any of our links from those respective sites. Any thoughts? Thank you in advance. - Patrick
Link Explorer | | WhiteboardCreations0