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    • polyniki
      polyniki last edited by

      Hello everybody, I used the open site explorer to check where my competitor has links and try to put mine there too. However I am extremely confused with the results. Eg the first link to my competitor coming from a domain with authority 91, is a download file. The other one is a link from ups, the courier service. When I click on it I get an access denied.The other one comes from samsung and when I click on it, I download an swf file. Next one, fcc.gov and it downloads a wp file. If I keep clicking on these links, in the end I am going to get a virus or something and learn nothing about what my competitor does. Any one have a clue how they managed to get linked like that?

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      • RyanKent
        RyanKent last edited by

        This issue should be reported to the seomoz helpdesk: help@seomoz.org. I would recommend reporting it immediately as OSE will be updated on Oct 18th. There is at least a chance by reporting it today the problem could be resolved next week.

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        • polyniki
          polyniki @RyanKent last edited by

          thanks Ryan.

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          • KeriMorgret
            KeriMorgret last edited by

            So sorry you are seeing this. It is a known bug that is being worked on, and a lot of it should be taken care of by the October 18th update. Like Ryan suggested, emailing help is a good step. For more information, see the response from a Linkscape engineer in this thread: http://www.seomoz.org/q/weird-behaviour

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