Local listings aren't being crawled?

[seomozinator]

Hello, SEO brainiacs. Here is the problem I can't figure out:We have a lot of clients and all of them have local listings, such as Insider Pages, Yahoo local, Bing locals, Yelp, Yellow Pages etc etc etc.
And all of those local listing have company's website link. But none of those links are considered (found) in reports, such as opensite explorer or in Link Analysis Section of Moz PRO.

I do know that MOZ crawl considers only high DA websites, but all of local listing domains have above 80-90 DA score, so they can't be NOT crawled.

I will say that some local listings do appear on very few reports, but far not all of them.

So, what can be the problem?

[RyanPurkey]

Hi Charles. It could be that due to Mozscape going after a wider diversity of domains, they're not crawling as deeply where your clients have local links. Here's Rand's explanation from the Jan 27 update:

The second is that we crawled a massively more diverse set of root domains than ever before. Whereas our previous index topped out at 192 million root domains, this latest one has 362 million (almost 1.9X as many unique, new domains we haven't crawled before). This means that DA and PA scores may fluctuate more than usual, as link diversity are big parts of those calculations and we've crawled a much larger swath of the deep, dark corners of the web (and non-US/non-.com domains, too). It also means that, for many of the big, more important sites on the web, we are crawling a little less deeply than we have in the past (the index grew by ~31% while the root domains grew by ~88%).

Bolded for my emphasis.  If you cross link from your client sites to their local review listings to help / prompt users to fill out reviews you're likely to see more of those pages indexed in OSE.  However, they could still be not counted if they're not considered important enough for that domain, i.e. if they're not in the top 1000 Yelp pages on yelp.com (numbers are just for example purposes of the idea... not accurate).  Make sense?

Google however still likely knows about the links and is applying the related associations. And feel free to use other tools (GWT, aHrefs, Majestic) when trying to create a complete backlink profile for clients. Cheers!

[seomozinator]

Thanks for a response.

Your answer does make sense, besides one thing:

We are paying MOZ for PRO subscription and instead of providing fully operational tool, I am being referred to other services?!

That's nice...

Everybody knows that GWT is very incorrect on many-many-metrics, ahrefs and majestic are not free (or at least not full versions of their tools). Hoping to get the most relevant results and SEO picture, we go with MOZ and that's what we get?! "Go check out other services"?

Shame... shame...

[RyanPurkey]

Hi Charles. I don't work for Moz, so my recommendations are my own.

Also, I pay for a pro subscription here as well, and also combine resources from multiple sources when I'm really trying to get into the minutae of each and every back link.  Ultimately it's a lot cheaper than creating my own crawler and index to try and duplicate Google. In your example with clients on local, you were likely involved in developing those links so why not keep track of them in-house versus 3rd party tools?  Personally my only need I have for trying to get 100% of backlinks reported is if I run into a situation with a manual action client and need as robust as a disavow list as possible.  Often times you can find these sorts of links via Google searches alone due to repetitive exact match keyword usage.

The most value I get out of OSE is when I'm comparing the back link profiles of my sites versus those of the competition that are appearing in the rankings. I can usually come up with more than enough work to keep myself busy when using the tool in this manner.

If you're specifically trying to manage local listings, Moz Local may be a better tool for your purposes. Cheers!