Why Historical Domain Analysis is not updated for almost 2 months?

[Pol360]

This is one of the most important areas of SeoMoz to see if you are making any progress or not. Unfortunately it is not updated since 2/28/12 and today is 4/18/12. What's happenning?

[Anthony_NorthSEO]

HI Pol,

You can check out the Linkscape Update Schedule here:

http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/25141119/Linkscape%20Schedule

Looks like April 27th is the day. You're not the only one holding your breath, I promise! But with the next index including over 100 billion URLs for the first time, I'm sure SEOMoz has a few kinks to work out.

Also here's a very in depth explanation of the reason for the delayed update, which was originally planned for April 6th:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/linkscape-index-delay-explained

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Anthony

[ShaMenz]

Hi Pol360,

Excellent answer from Anthony and big thumbs up!

If you are looking for a tool that will let you know when you have new links, you might want to take a look at Linkstant, a cool tool put together by Tom Critchlow & Rob Ousbey from SEO consulting company Distilled.

You won't get all of the Moz metrics available in Open Site Explorer once the Index is updated, but in the meantime you will at least know instantly when new links are created

Hope that helps,

Sha

[Anthony_NorthSEO]

Hey Sha, awesome tool, and the first I've heard of it. I'll definitely be implementing it ASAP. If I could give you two thumbs I would

Thanks again.

[Mcarle]

How exactly does this tool work?

Does it send you updates with NEW links to your site?

or

Does it send you messages when someone CLICKS an old link to your site?

I just got a few messages about "new" links but they have been on other sites for months...

I can't find any text that clarifies this on the website.

[loopyal]

It's ok, I added a thumbs up for you

[RobOusbey]

Hi Mcarle, I'm Rob - I built Linkstant.

Linkstant monitors for clicks on a link to your site that it hasn't seen before.

If you put the Linkstant code on a new site, or just on new pages, then you'll only know about new links.

If you put the code on pages that have been around for a while and have a bunch of links already, then I'm afraid it will alert you when it discovers those old links for a while.

You could consider turning off the email alerts for a time, while it discovers all those old links, or you might just chose to the put the code on new content.

Hope this helps; let me know if you have any other questions!

Rob