Question about a dramatic decrease in domain authority.
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My personal website http://Bsalva.com has started to drop in both page authority and domain authority.
This seems to be largely due to open site explorer not picking up all of my inbound links. Right now it says I only have one linking root domain, but I know this to be crap. I have quite a few followed links from well trusted and reputable sites. My page rank typically bounces between a 5 and 6. I should also have hundreds of inbound links.
The other sites In my campaign monitor haven't taken such a hit so I'm starting to get a little worried.
Does anyone know what might cause incoming links to not me recognized? they were just fine last month, and I can go find them on the web as we speak.
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Thanks, I'll wait a day or two then talk to them. I'm positive they're missing links. Most are long standing and can still be verified.
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OSE is based on the Linkscape index of the web. It is supposed to update next Tuesday but it seems it may have updated yesterday.
The Linkscape index had a few growing pains during the last update. SEOmoz is trying to expand the tool and in the process some mistakes were made. Hopefully they were fixed but feedback will be needed from everyone using the tool. If you feel there are mistakes I would definitely recommend contacting the help desk. Offer specific examples along with details as to why you feel the index is in error.
I can only say I noticed yesterday my sites were updated and they seem correct. I also noticed one site that I monitor which I reported issues with last time has been completely updated and appears valid now.
EDIT: The reply offered above was valid an hour ago, but not presently. It seems as if the Linkscape was updated, and now that update has been pulled and we are once again looking at the old data.
It could also be that Carin is bored on a Saturday and having fun with us.
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Thanks for the reply! Yeah I definitely understand this. My traffic is up 500% because of some new links I picked up. unfortunately this traffic doesn't convert well because its mostly from my peers and not perspective clients.
I've seen a 25-30% loss in organic results which has a far better conversion rate. If site explorer is getting hung up checking my links maybe Google is too?
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Thanks for the reply! A Lot of the ones I lost weren't .gov or .edu though they were among the others I lost. I'm down to 1 from hundreds.
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Worry if your traffic has fallen.
Otherwise, its only a number.
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Nearly the exact same thing happened here in the last 48 hours. PR4 personal blog that was ranking #1 for 20-30 Wordpress related search terms. Now I'm page 3-10+.... Right as my blog was getting picked up and I got a small (~50) influx of +1's, my site dropped 10 pages in results!
I made a few .gov sites in the passed, and USED to have ~200,000 .gov backlinks. My domain authority was 20+ points higher than it currently is.
My best bet on what to make out of all of this is that Google is cracking down on .gov/.edu "authority" links.
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