Open site explorer result discrepancy

[AlanMosley]

Root domain means all domains that end in xyz.com. not just www.xyz.com

that could be admin.xyz.com, sales.xyz.com, xyz.com, www.xyz.com

but total links should be the highest

[EclipseLegal]

Thanks for the reply Alan

Thats what I thought but when I rerun the search on just xyz.com it just says no results. So how do I view all these over 21k odd links?

[AlanMosley]

do a search in google for site:xyz.com, you may see some different subdomains.

You would expect that eitehr xyz.com or www.xyz to have the majority fo links, but it may be there have another popuular subdomains, like forum.xyz.com

[EclipseLegal]

Gotcha, thanks again.

[My-Favourite-Holiday-Cottages]

If you havn't tryed it, there are options above the results, change  the "to" feild from 'this page' to 'pages on this root domain'.

That should give all the links to your root domain.

[EclipseLegal]

Yup - tried that and no difference.

[EclipseLegal]

Just tried this and there are no other subdomains listed in google other than www. Beginning to suspect the results shown in open site explorer are not correct.

[AlanMosley]

You maybe right, if you can give us a url i will take a look.

[EclipseLegal]

Sure - I'll pm you it as these questions show in serps themselves.

[AlanMosley]

I see what you mean, i cant work it out, try thr feedback tab on the side and ask SEOMoz, they will either explain it or fix it.

[EclipseLegal]

Will do, thanks again.