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    • mullinsgeoffrey
      mullinsgeoffrey last edited by

      I know that there are links to my site, but nothing shows up.

      My website is www.mullinsgeoffrey.com. I have tried with and without the www.

      I am using wordpress for this site, but competitors are as well, and there authority seems fine.

      is there a hidden setting somewhere that is screwing things up?

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      • ORob
        ORob last edited by

        Geoff - have you tried another tool which uses a different index. It could be that OSE does not have your links indexed. Try Google webmaster tools, Bing webmaster tools, or another tool which tracks inbound lnks.

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        • MarkHodson
          MarkHodson last edited by

          Geoff, you probably need to be a little more patient. You only registered your domain on 20 June this year and there's nothing yet on the Wayback Machine. I would focus your energies more on creating great content on your site, social media outreach, etc, rather than worrying about your domain authority just yet.

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          • MikeTek
            MikeTek last edited by

            Hi Geoff,

            It looks like in the time since you posted this question and today, your site authority has grown.

            As the previous two respondents noted, what you were seeing was the effects of your domain being so new. Not only does it take Google some time to pick up on things, but most tools/data providers that show us metrics around inbound links and authority update their indexes/data sets every month or so (perhaps quicker, but not by much since it's so expensive to crawl the web). Important to keep that in mind when you're looking at your own site(s) or those of competitors.

            I don't see any links pointing to your site in Open Site Explorer or ahrefs - it's unlikely both tools are "wrong" here. If you know of specific pages/sites that are linking to you, I'd recommend double checking that those pages/sites are actually being indexed by search engines. You can be seeing a link behind a login wall or similar barrier to search crawlers that, for all appearances, is SEO friendly, but because the page isn't being indexed it never counts towards your authority.

            I'm marking this question as answered since it seems that the issue you were concerned with has been corrected.

            Best,
            Mike

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