When do the "just discovered" links on Open Site Explorer count?

[dealblogger]

I have been working hard to get follow backlinks but they have all been in the Just Discovered part of Open Site Explorer for a long time. So they don't count in my stats for Domain Authority and such. When do they move OUT of Just Discovered?

[The_Tela]

Hi dealblogger!

That's a great question. At the moment, Just-Discovered Links is powered by an index that is completely separate from the Mozscape index. Links that are found and included in Just-Discovered Links are not automatically fed into our Mozscape index. I'll add your request to combine links from Just-Discovered with our primary index.

Links that we discover are crawled for inclusion in our main index based on the authority of those URLs. Here is a blog post that goes into detail about how Roger crawls the web and which URLs are included in our index. Thanks for writing-in!

Cheers,
Tela

[dealblogger]

Interesting, thanks for the info.

So none of the backlinks I have gotten in the last month (when I started working for them) are showing up outside of Just Discovered. But I know these are good links because the websites who are linking to me are really popular and have a domain authority of up to 72. I don't control them all of course.

So when are they going to count? The only ones showing in "inbound links" are very old. And there are only 9 from only 2 domains. I have 50 external follow links in Just Discovered. Google Webmasters has picked up on a lot of them already.

Thanks!

[The_Tela]

Unfortunately I'm not able to provide you a specific timeframe when links from Just-Discovered Links would appear in the Mozscape index. From the blog post linked above, Mozscape has it's own crawl scheduling timeframe.

Because of the time it takes to identify links, schedule, crawl and index them, it will typically be several weeks before links will appears in the Mozscape index. The high domain authority of linking domains will help ensure the links are included in the index, but do not help in speeding the process of getting links indexed.

I hope this helps!