Most of the backlinks not listed

[fabio_m]

Hi, I'm running a website since one year and a half, and I'm periodically watching with Moz OSE tools the number of backlinks it has.

It still shows only 11 backlinks from 8 domains, even if my actual backlinks are much more and come from about 40 domains.

I've already searched the forum and read that Moz scraper updates once per month, but all these backlinks are like 6 months old, and still no trace.

Many other competitor tools, including the simple google search console can see all the backlinks, only Moz can't retrieve them.

Do you have any idea? Somebody else in the same situation?

Or is there a way to submit to Moz links to pages containing that backlinks?
Thanks
Regards

[ogbravo1]

Having the same issue. I have numerous dofollow backlinks from high DA  sites and also from some of the best ranking legit directories in the industry yet they are nowhere to be found. I understand that "not all" will be found but "none at all" is very disappointing.

[fabio_m]

Hi, thanks for your reply,

It's still a bit strange because the missing backlinks are from the most important websites with higher DA and relevance (some like linkedin, couchsurfing, ect).

So I suppose there's no page submission tools available and just need to "hope"?

Thanks.

[dave.kudera]

Hi there — thanks for writing in and sorry about the trouble.

This is definitely due to the way we collect this information for our link index, and it is actually expected that we won’t find every page and link, because we aren’t looking for them all.  When we collect this data, we’re looking specifically for the most valuable links and, rather than crawling your entire site or every site, we collect this by starting our crawler on a few highest ranking sites and letting it perform a breadth first search to see what it finds.

For each page that we crawl, we first collect each of it’s links before following these and collecting the details of each page that these link to and so on. There’s a set limit of links that we’ll crawl per page and pages that we’ll crawl per site so it’s expected that we may not follow every link on your site this way.

Generally, we recommend using a wide variety of backlink tools to get the most illustrative picture of how your site's backlink profile looks. OSE and Ahrefs index differently and have different purposes. Ahrefs is good for quantity while OSE is great for finding higher quality links. Domain Authority is our own proprietary metric that is closely correlated to Google rankings, so our customers often use OSE to research influential sites to build links.