No Link Data Available for this URL appears often. Are my sites too small to show up?
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I am on the trial until Mar 5, 2012.
I seldom get the info I want. Is it because my sites are too narrow a niche?
I don't seem to be getting the data I'd like from your service. I'm trying to like it, but when I keep getting messages like this, it makes it hard to justify:
"No Link Data Available for this URL appears often"
Sample sites that I am unable to get data. I especially would like to know how many backlinks exist for each site. I paid someone to help me with them and I'd like to verify their work.:
http://costaricadentistreview.com/
http://costaricadentistreviews.com/
http://costaricadentalimplants.org
Any suggestions?
Thanx
Kurt Gross
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Thanks for the insights and thorough reply. Actually both 1. and 2. are in play.
Number 1. because the site is new like you said.
Number 2. because the second site, http://CostaRicaDentistReviews.com has had a hired "SEO Expert" who has been working on it since early Jan 2012 whereas the one without the 's' at the end, i.e. http://CostaRicaDentistReview.com has had little done to it.
As I stated in another 'Thank You' reply, I setup both so I could test the two. One with no work, the other being worked on by the hired SEO guy. He said it would take about 4 months for results to show, which makes sense. But, here I am paying him each month, hoping he's right.
One red flag that I see is that he is submitting the same short content ( 3 lines) to every bookmark site. Seventy-five per day.
I am not that SEO knowledgeable but this seems like Google suicide to me. But, he's the "SEO Expert" so what do I know, right?
Thanks again for your help and time!
Kurt Gross
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Thanks for the reply and helpful answer and comments. The second site, http://CostaRicaDentistReviews.com is the one that I have an "SEO Expert" working on whereas the one without the 's' at the end, i.e. http://CostaRicaDentistReview.com has had little done to it.
I setup both so I could test the two. One with no work, the other being worked on by the hired SEO guy. He said it would take about 4 months for results to show, which makes sense. But, here I am paying him each month, hoping he's right.
One red flag that I see is that he is submitting the same, short - very short, as in 3 lines in length short - article to each bookmark site. To me, this is Google suicide, but he's the "SEO Expert" and I'm only the lowly novice with the bad feeling in my gut.
Your answer helps me see that I am jumping the gun, looking for results too early. I'm doing that because I'm paying for the backlink work and suspecting it's for naught because of the replicated content.
Ok, too much info probably, but I wanted to say thanks, and I got carried away. Thanks again for your help!
Kurt Gross in Tennessee USA
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It's usually 1 of 2 causes that will give you a blank result on Open Site Explorer (OSE).
1. the site is so new, or the newly built links to the site are so new that OSE has not had time to crawl and display those links in their most recent index update. SEOmoz updates the index in OSE once every 30-40 days.
2. all of the links pointing to your sites have not been crawled by OSE. OSE crawls a big portion of the Internet, but it does not crawl 100% of sites out there. So, if we are talking about a site with only a small handful of links, it's quite possible that OSE just doesn't have the crawl depth to pick them up.
Scenario 1 is the most probable case. I looked at the whois information for the first URL you provided, and the domain was registered in December. So, if your site has been active for less than a couple months, I would suspect your link building activities trailed that by several weeks. I would suggest giving it more time for any links you've built (or paid to have built) will start to show up.
In the meantime, you can work on establishing your on-page SEO elements. Have you created a campaign in the SEOmoz tools yet? That is a great start. Good luck!
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I checked the first site you linked to and it seems pretty new - just about 2 months old I believe? It doesn't seem to have any links/ authority as of yet and thats why it gives you that "No Link Data Available..." message.
Try acquiring some links on other relevant websites and checking back a few weeks later.
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