Client YouTube Channel does not appear in Open Site Explorer?

[BCMiller]

Client's website has been connected to their website, along with Google+ page. Why do we not see this listed in Open Site Explorer?

[morganlindsaycole]

I am also linked through Google plus and my youtube channel, although not seeing either.  Following this thread!

[MichaelBird]

Hey there Baron,

I'm sorry to hear that you're not seeing any backlink data for your URL in OSE! There are two types of link data we capture: External and Internal Linking pages. In order for us to discover backlinks to your site, we need to crawl the sites and pages linking to you. Once we can find those links, we will then be able to crawl your site to find pages you link to and so forth.

If you don't see any inbound links from external sites:
Check your URL for typos or other errors. Did your URL cut off or contain the wrong punctuation.
Check out the site's navigation. Sometimes it takes multiple index updates for us to discover pages that aren't linked to from the site's primary navigation. A simple fix is to create a link to the URL from another page on the website.
The Mozscape index is still growing. Keep in mind that, while large, our index doesn’t cover the entire web. If you have a smaller site it’s possible we haven’t crawled the domains linking to it. Search the pages linking to yours to see if we have indexed their links. If you need help with link building, check-in with our Q&A community at moz.com/community/q

If you don't see any internal links to your page:
Make sure we're not blocked from crawling this URL or site. If our web crawlers are blocked from crawling certain pages (i.e., with "noindex" or Robots.txt), they may not be included in the index.

Just so you know, here's how we compile our index:

• We grab the most recent index.
• We take the top 10 billion URLs with the highest MozRank (with a fixed limit on some of the larger domains).
• We start crawling from the top down until we've crawled 90,000,000,000 pages (which is about 35% the amount in Google's index).

Therefore, if the site is not linked to by one of these seed URLs (or one of the URLs linked to by them in the next update) then it won't show up in our index.

Other tools, such as Webmaster Tools, Ahrefs, and Majestic will alway show more link data as they target the quantity of links, while OSE focuses more on quality and Domain Authority. It’s best to use all the tools you can to obtain a full backlink profile.

Mozscape focuses on a breadth-first approach. Therefore we almost always have content from the homepage of websites, externally linked-to pages, and pages higher up in a site's information hierarchy. However, deep pages that are buried beneath many layers of navigation are sometimes missed and it may be several index updates before we catch all of these.

We update once a month and you can view the next scheduled update here: http://moz.com/products/api/updates

Hope this helps provide some clarity. I'm also going to be reaching out to you in a help ticket to get the URL from you so I can take a second look in OSE for you.

[BCMiller]

Michael,

Thanks for the in depth answer for when a user sees no links.

My question is - Why do I not see YouTube as an inbound link? I have my Google+ page set up correctly with links as well as the YouTube channel.

I also see the top 30 or so inbound links are from my own website?

Let me know if you have any suggestions on these questions.

Thanks!

[Mark_Ginsberg]

Baron,

I believe what Michael meant (correct me if I'm wrong Michael), is that OSE runs off of Moz's crawler.  If there crawler hasn't come across your YT and G+ pages, then they wouldn't have picked up the links to your site from those pages either.

Either way, I assure you that Google knows about those links due to their more robust crawling ability and the fact that they own both of those products