Shares and tweets

[Ranj]

I've shared to FB and tweeted my blog many times but the Link Research & Analysis With: Open Site Explorer hasnt picked them up, does this mean Google isnt picking them up either? What am I doing wrong?

[TinaGammon]

I don't think your doing anything wrong I have hundreds of Twitter and Facebook shares, but OSE does not pick mine up either. You can see if Google picks them up by going to Google and searching your full url. http://www.yoursite.com   you will probably need to go back in the results a few pages however you should start seeing them.

What I have found with the Facebook results is that people with less likes will show up first, and Google will not display all of them, but a good portion should show up.

[Gamer07]

Open Site Explorer is always behind. You can use Google Webmaster Tools to download the sites linking to you.

[Ranj]

Thanks I understand how links etc work. I also have some FB likes on my page. However I only have one FB share and its been months now. So it must be that its not picking on the shares for some reason.

[Ranj]

Thanks I understand how links etc work. I also have some FB likes on my page. However I only have one FB share and its been months now. So it must be that its not picking on the shares for some reason.

[JoelDay]

Hey Ranjit,

Open Site Explorer shows Tweets and FB shares for the URL itself. I know it can be kind of tricky, but it has nothing to do with your Facebook page. Since OSE has no idea what your Facebook page is it only searches for mentions of the URL itself.

For example. Run a report for www.seomoz.org. We obviously have way more than 139 likes for our FB page, but the URL www.seomoz.org has only been liked 139 times.

I hope that makes sense.
Cheers,
Joel.