Two PR 5 websites, but little to no link data in OSE. How??

[Mark.RedGiant]

5 total links to BFore.co.za? That's hardly strong.

I know for a fact there are more - for instance, there is one on the Joomla.org showcase which is a relatively strong link.

There are also several others that aren't getting picked up that I know of, but none of these links are strong enough for such a quick pickup to PR 5.

As for ictjournalafrica.net - I have done zero link-building to the site. I haven't a clue where it's picked up that sort of PR from.

My own site, which I do occasionally build links to and is quite a bit older than the two above, is only PR 3.

I'm just frustrated that there is so little link data being picked up in OSE.

[Mark.RedGiant]

Could part of the problem with OSE be that it doesn't let me enter httpS://bfore.co.za but insists on http://bfore.co.za?

The http:// version is 301 redirected to the secure version.

[activitysuper]

Have you looked at there link profile in web master tools, you might find links in there which might have not been picked up by OSE link Ben pointed out.

[Audiohype]

I meant the links themselves were fairly strong, not the total amount

There's a PR6 page linking to one of the sites which looks quite strong.

My advice would be to give it some time. OSE can take a while to update sometimes and when it does you will have a better overview of your link profile. You can then approach it with a bit more information.

Until then just keep on promoting!

[Audiohype]

This could be part of the problem. It was something I noticed initially when looking at the site, 301's will often result in different metrics being reported on and may be part of the misalignment between links and PR.

[activitysuper]

Ok try this:

"https://bfore.co.za" and then try "http://bfore.co.za" in Google not the greatest of tests but you can see the difference in results generated.

[Mark.RedGiant]

Just did that. Quite a few more links being picked up there.

I have a feeling that the backlinks coming from Joomla.org are proving to be a really significant influence.

[Mark.RedGiant]

You can't enter https://bfore.co.za in OSE?

[activitysuper]

In Google, you will see a list of websites which contain that url about 2000 against 250 with the non ssl.

Not the greatest test but does give an idea.

[KeriMorgret]

Yep, that's your problem. I just talked with the help desk to confirm. OSE/Linkscape can't crawl https for measuring your links, so it's only seeing links that are going to http and not the links going to https.

[Mark.RedGiant]

Oh no.

There goes almost the entire reason I signed up for SEOMoz in the first place.

Any idea of what tool CAN measure links back to an https website?

[randfish]

If the backlinks come from primarily other https sites, you might try Majestic SEO (or Google Webmaster Tools as mentioned above). We'll have HTTPS crawling in a few months - it's a high priority right now.