Why does YouTube NOT appear in my backlinks?

[Prime85]

Hello,

I am looking through my backlinks in OSE and i have noticed that there are no inbound links from YouTube.  I absolutely have a Youtube account that has links to my social profiles as well as my website, and all of my videos have links to inner pages of my site.  Still, no links shown from Youtube.

Here is my YouTube page, http://www.youtube.com/user/simplastics ... Any idea why I don't see any inbound links from either my profile page or the individual videos?

Thanks!

[Prime85]

ok, if you say so... Thanks for the help.

[KeriMorgret]

Moz doesn't have quite the number of servers that Google does (or even Bing), so we are not able to crawl as deeply into as many sites. If we crawled all of a site like YouTube, Twitter, or Facebook, we wouldn't be able to crawl anything else at all. It's likely that your links just don't have enough authority at the moment to be picked up. The important part is that Google should know they are there.

[Prime85]

Chris,

If YouTube links being no-followed is the reason then why do other sites show backlinks from Youtube and why do some of my own backlinks say "no-follow" next to them in OSE?

Anyone else have any ideas?

[Chris_CM]

The links from YouTube are all nofollowed, make sure you are including nofollow links when examining your backlink profile.

Hope this helps,

Chris Wilson