Why some of my strong backlinks don't show up in Site Explorer
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Hello,
Just was checking my backlinks and I see that few very strong backlinks are not showing up in my links list. I check with Moz bar in my browser and those are all dofollow links.
Some of those sites link back to me a while ago.
Thanks,
Regards,
Armands
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Also some websites may have blocked Moz crawler, with the meta
So all their links won't show in OpenSiteExplorer
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Hi,
Althought OSE is a great tool, it's not 100% accurate. Sometimes there will be a delay and sometimes it won't show some of your links. The main purpose of OSE (in my opinion) - is competitive analysis to find link opportunities.
Thanks,
Dmytro
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Hi Armands,
Moz updates their index about once a month. Next update in June 21st.
Also, while the Moz index is rather large it's not all encompassing, which means there are backlinks that it just won't find.
Here's some more information that you might find helpful:
http://moz.com/community/q/open-site-explorer-not-detecting-linking-domain-on-my-site
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