Opensiteexplorer - not accuate for me

[pauledwards]

I am not getting accurate views in ose. Its still saying i have links from domains which i do not. I am wanting an accurate anchor text distribution but ose is not providing me with it. Does anyone know where i can get this kind of info from?

I waited for an update with ose but i personally find it inaccurate as it is still telling me links are there when they are not.

[dublinbet]

Try majestic SEO

[AlanMosley]

Whne did you remove the links?

[pauledwards]

Way before the last update.

[KeriMorgret]

The latest update for Linkscape/OSE was this morning, and I believe after you posted this. Can you re-run your report and see if it looks better? Do keep in mind Linkscape crawls only about 25% of the web, so no report is going to be perfect regarding all of your anchor text distribution, but it should be more accurate for you today than it was yesterday given the recent update.

[pauledwards]

Erm its a little different, still very questionable about the accuracy.

I also noticed that my internal report shows different anchor text distribution to the OSE, does anyone know why and which one is more reliable/up to date?

[Cyrus-Shepard]

Hi Paul,

Linkscape is updated every few weeks, and with each new index old links are cleaned out. Occassionally you can find links that no longer exist, but Linkscape will look for these links during it's next crawl of the web, and only include them if found. So any non-existent links tend to disappear in a few weeks.

This is actually a very interesting problem for web crawlers, because 50% of the entire web disappears every year, and 80% disappears ever two years! Keeping up with this churn is a momentous task. In fact, over half the time it takes to publish a new Linkscape index is spent on processing time to ensure it's accuracy.

As Ari mentioned you can try Majestic SEO. You can also find some (highly inconsistent) backlink information in Webmaster Tools. No two link reports from different sources will ever be the same so you will definitely see different results. That said, if I had to choose one source for backlink information I prefer the numerous advantages offered by OSE.

Occasionally OSE reports links that are "hidden" or otherwise hard to find. In extreme cases it's best to check the source code of the website to ensure the links are actually missing.

Also, feel free to report any possible OSE errors to the SEOmoz help team (help@seomoz.org) Any information can help make the tool better.

Best of Luck with your SEO!

[TMI.com]

I know this thread is very old, but still very relevant to me today. My OSE report is showing sites that do not have any link pointing back to my site. I checked both the page and the source code and cannot find any evidence of a link. Some of these are low quality sites, and I don't want Google to punish me for being linked from them. Should I be worried of a penalty if OSE is still indexing them? Appreciate any response.