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Hi Jovanky, Thanks for writing in. Turns out your in luck. Our esteemed associate Alyeda Solis recently wrote a post on competitive analysis that outlines the steps you need to take here: http://moz.com/blog/illustrated-seo-competitive-analysis-workflow If you're looking for backlink analysis, there's a couple of other posts I'd recommend: http://moz.com/blog/guide-to-competitive-backlink-analysis http://moz.com/blog/competitive-analysis-in-under-60-seconds-using-google-docs-12649 Hope this helps! Best of luck with your SEO.

Got same problem on this.  Can't create a ticket. Almost 24 hours that I can't do filter search.

thanks, got it working with the advice. Looking forward to have the issue fixed.

Hi Ken Google is much larger than us so they will always show more data. Also when checking your linking root domains, make sure you are filtering for all 3 metrics for page, sub-domain, and root-domain. We basically index about 35% of what Google can. A lot of people recommend using multiple backlink tools to obtain a full profile. This has come up many times in the Q&A before so you should check out some of the answers there which might help: http://moz.com/community/q/discrepancy-between-ose-internal-links-and-webmaster-tools http://moz.com/community/q/seomoz-not-showing-latest-backlinks http://moz.com/community/q/why-is-there-such-a-big-discrepancy-between-ose-and-gwt-regarding-backlinks http://moz.com/community/q/why-does-opensiteexplorer-tell-me-i-have-292-linking-domains-and-google-webmasteer-tools-says-528 Hope this helps!

Have you tried more than one tool to verify they are indeed not showing up? Try a few other backlink watching tools, just to double check. Raven tools has a great link checker, as does Ahrefs. Visit the actual page where your links were supposed to be placed, to see if they are still present, and inspect the link to verify it is "followed", and not a "no-follow" Also, were the links that were acquired paid links? Could be that the linking site got hit with a penalty. This is all just speculation, based upon what you have said here. I would do a bit more research, to try and see if the links were truly removed, if they are followed, or if it's just not showing up in MOZ's link crawler.

Hi David, I'm actually unsure. Could you send me the URL you're looking at (feel free to private message me if your uncomfortable)

So the short answer is there's nothing in Feedburner's robots.txt to prevent crawlers from accessing those URLs, even indexing them. You'll find them in Moz's index because those URLs are completely discoverable on the web. It appears to me Google is making a special case out of them. Although they don't do that for all Feedburner URLs. From a larger picture point of view, there's always going to be a discrepancy between what Google counts and what you find in OSE, or Majestic, or Ahrefs. So we don't really know how Google is treating those URLs. I would suspect they are using them for discovery. It's possible they pass link equity as well, but I wouldn't say that with a lot of confidence. It's possible we'll considering treating these URLs different in the future if we become more confident in how we believe Google treats them. Regardless, thanks for the heads up.

A couple of notes here first. Google has really clamped down on private blog networks. Your effort might be better spent in other areas than developing a network. Domain Authority is a Moz metric, and the search engines don't use our metrics for rankings. We approximate, to a degree, how we think the search engines might value sites. How the search engines treat an expired domain may depend on what you do with the site itself. If it had information about Ford Explorer tires and now it has information about hot air balloons, they can tell that something big has happened.

My site www.naukrigulf.com competitor site www.bayt.com

Yep that is correct, which can be 50/50.

Hi there! Thanks for reaching out! My name is Erin, and I'm on the Moz Help Team. Unfortunately we don't have a work around for this right now, and we can only show the top 25 pages for Social Metrics. Sorry for any inconvenience this has caused! I'll be sure to note this feedback for our Product Team! I hope this helps, and happy Thursday! Erin

Sweet! If anything else comes up again definitely let us know

Yea im not sure if explorer picks up everything but WMT does. As long as you add all your urls to all your social acts your should be good.

Wow, it looks like it just changed! I checked it early today and there was no update. I checked it now just in case, and saw that my domain authority jumped up 7 points and my page authority 7 points as well. Doing the happy dance!!

Hi Scott, Have you checked your spam folder? I'm looking at the help desk, and do see that we answered you on May 14th.

I'm having similar problems with a number of my sites.  Some established ones and a new one.  No new data.. my new site has been up for nearly two months, and I know that there are links... but nothing is showing. Very frustrating.  To be fair to the moz team, for my new site, I'm not seeing anything in WMT yet, even though I jumped through all of their hoops.

Hi there! For our inbound links, here is how we compile our index: <code>- We grab the most recent index. - We take the top 10 billion URLs with the highest MozRank (with a fixed limit on some of the larger domains). - We start crawling from the top down until we've crawled 90,000,000,000 pages (which is about 35% the amount in Google's index).</code> Therefore, if the site is not linked to by one of these seed URLs (or one of the URLs linked to by them in the next update) then it won't show up in our index. Sorry! We update our Mozscape Index every 4 weeks. Crawling the entire Internet to look for links takes 2-3 weeks, but our crawlers are always collecting data. When we need to put the index together, we grab all the data they have collected and start processing which can take up to 3 weeks to determine which of those links are the most important. You can see our most recently updated schedule here: http://moz.com/products/api/updates Mozscape focuses on a breadth-first approach. Therefore we almost always have content from the homepage of websites, externally linked-to pages, and pages higher up in a site's information hierarchy. However, deep pages that are buried beneath many layers of navigation are sometimes missed and it may be several index updates before we catch all of these. If our crawlers or data sources are blocked from reaching those URLs, they may not be included in our index (though links that point to those pages will still be available). Finally, the URLs seen by Mozscape must be linked-to by other documents on the web or our index will not include them. For now, the best thing you can do to help your domain become indexed is to work on link building for links from sites with high mozrank. Hope this helps clear things up!

I do see for the root domain that there are 8500 links, and only about 400 of them are external. Do you perhaps have absolute internal links using non-www, but your campaign is using www?

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Why bother trying to clean anything up?  If somewhere out there there are links to your domain, and they're 404'ing, just 301 them to new pages on your site!  Capture that link juice, don't let it run out