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    • Goopping
      Goopping last edited by

      I have a site that has over 400 links going to it. When I use Moz open site explorer or any other SEO tool its says I have only 12 links. Does anyone know why this could be happening?

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      • smstv
        smstv last edited by

        Perhaps your site has not been in the system long enough? And are the 400+ site domain authority big rankers? Or are they link farms?

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        • fibers
          fibers last edited by

          How old are your links? I don't think that open site explorer hasn't been updated in almost two months.

          What is your website it might help if we could look it up to see.

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            Goopping @fibers last edited by

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            • Goopping
              Goopping @smstv last edited by

              They are all custom links that were put on. Most are probably no follow blog comments, but there are quite a few there are follow links from bigger websites.

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              • Copstead
                Copstead @Goopping last edited by

                Are the links going to the new site or the old site?

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                  • Copstead
                    Copstead @Goopping last edited by

                    Then I believe the links will only show for the old site, and not the new one.

                    So if you had 400 links to https://goopping.atscheckout.com/goopping/

                    doesn't mean that you automatically have 400 links to http://www.goopping.com

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                    • Goopping
                      Goopping @Goopping last edited by

                      Is there a way to redirect those old links?

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