Open Site Explorer missing links
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Hi,
When the update of Open Site Explorer was released I noticed that the new version was missing a huge amount of links that the old version previously found. This still seems to be the case and it's pretty frustrating as we use the tool for our clients.
Is this something that everybody is seeing and if so SEOMoz when do you think you'll have a solution?
Many thanks
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A very old thread but I am missing crunchbase and other big links to my http://www.adserve.com.au domain
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Awesome. Thanks for the specificity. We'll look into this, and hopefully have these in either the next index, or the one following.
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Hi Rand,
Thanks for the response...
I provide my clients with a acreenshot of competitive analysis screen every three months so that we can gauge their ongoing success. I ran into the issue that all of their DAs had dropped and so they started asking questions.
That prompted me to run a comparison out of interest against Worktracker, Yahoo and Sypglass to try to determine whether it was a real issue or just a few remote domains missing that I really don't need to worry about.
The results were as follows for the client that I tested: (number of linking domains)
SEOMoz = 31
Wordtracker = 80
Spyglass = 74
Yahoo = 67
That's a pretty big difference.
When I looked further into the detail I found that I was missing some pretty big domains including:
joeant
crunchbase
Yell (big in the UK)
Yahoo directory
econsultancy etc...
To be honest I did these tests about 2 weeks ago, although I have just checked again and theya re still missing. It would be great if you could have a look into these as currently the domains being reported are about 20-25% down on the others.
Thanks
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Hi Jonathan - thanks for the feedback. We're constantly working to tweak and improve Linkscape's index, and in this latest round we tried to balance out some of what we'd seen last index with deep pages on large sites crowding out domain diversity and a wide breadth.
Of course, our goal is to have both over time, but we've got a lot of work to do to get to Google's scale. We suspect they keep between 100-150billion pages in their main index, and we've got 51billion in our latest update, so we know there's missing stuff.
On the other hand, Linkscape and OSE should still be very useful to comparative analysis against competitors or other sites in your field, and it should still be very useful for discovering high value link targets and important sites/pages.
If there's specific stuff you think we're missing, please don't hesitate to send to help at seomoz dot org.
Thanks!
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Hi Jonathon,
Rand talked about a slight change of approach in the latest Linkscape update in a blog post earlier this week. Here is a link to the post: Linkscape Updates and Wireframes/Feedback on New Task List PRO Feature.
He did mention in the post that SEOmoz would welcome feedback on the change, so If you are experiencing issues it might be worth dropping a comment on the post.
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Same /\
I only have about 7 or 8 links to my site (new site) but OSE says there is only 1
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