Links are not found in OSE or am I missing ?
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Hi.. All of our targeted pages have gone through serious Blog Posting and Social Bookmarking. All the sites were more than PR1 or 2 and all of them had a dofollow link with the perfect anchor texts. But when I trying to check our pages on OSE, it doesnt any of them. Why is that ? Im getting worried now. We have spent our last 7 months on this .
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But there are still some displaying, correct? It can take up to 60 days for OSE to show links after discovering, and it doesn't discover all links. Have you checked OSE to see if it indexes the pages where you have your link?
You've verified the link is still there. Google makes a much deeper crawl than OSE, so if the linking pages are indexed in Google and the links are clean, then Google will see it, and I wouldn't get too worried over things.
In my case, there's an MIT link out there to my competitor's site that's not showing anymore, and I'm sure the link is still there. It's just from a faculty member's website that is mostly abandoned.
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Still not showing the ones, which we did in last 2-3 months.
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I'm now seeing several links to that exact page in Open Site Explorer. Take a look at this link: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?page=1&site=www.qubesys.com%2Fpsd-to-joomla-template%2F&sort=page_authority&filter=&source=external&target=page&group=0
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Have the links displayed in the new OSE release? Is your domain one that you can list publicly here for us to look at and help determine what is happening?
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Also keep in mind that Open Site Explorer represents the top 25% of the web; it is not a full crawl of the web (more information at http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/about).
Two things to try. One is to put in the domain for where you know you have links into OSE and see if it's even indexed. The next is to be patient and try again in a week, since the next update of OSE is scheduled for next Tuesday -- they may get picked up in the next crawl.
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In that case, check the blogs by doing a google search for site:yourblogname.com and make sure the blogs are indexed if you haven't checked that already. You might want to try Yahoo Site Explorer too. If the blog pages that contain your links are showing in either or both of those and the pages are older than about a month, contact SEOMoz support. It may be some kind of glitch.
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Okay, we do it in house and yes, we have checked everything 5 times.
All the anchor texts are in good state.
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Could be a few things:
If the blog posts have only appeared within the last few weeks, they may not show in OSE. Link analysis was last updated on September 8th, I think. Since you say it has been about 7 months, this is probably not the case. I know Google will ignore some spam blogs, but I think OSE would still show the links. Just because the blogs have PR1 or 2 doesn't mean they are indexed. If they are blatantly spammy or have been selling links for a while, they may have been dropped.
In my experience, many social bookmarking sites don't always show up in OSE or many other link trackers. Not sure which ones do and which ones don't.
The worst case scenario is if you paid someone else to do the blog posts and bookmarks and they didn't really do it. Have you checked any of them to see if they are actually there?
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