Open Site Explorer WAY Off in Terms of Link Profiles?
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Hey,
One of our websites is www.inspireeducation.net.au. I have noticed although tools like Raventools capture our links well, Open Site Explorer is doing a terrible job...
For example the following page >>> http://www.inspireeducation.net.au/courses/training-and-assessment-courses/certificate-iv-in-training-and-assessment/ has many many more than 8 root domains linking, however Open Site Explorer only presents 8?
We are finding the same problem for almost any page we review through Open Site. Does anyone have any idea why the numbers would be so out? The new links are NOT fresh links. Many are well-established (been there for years), and even many newer ones have been there for more that 60 days.
I find the same thing when reviewing competitor sites.. is Open Site Explorer working properly at all at the moment?
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We did just update OpenSiteExplorer this afternoon, but I believe it is fully rolled out with updated data.
We don't have the number of servers that Google or Bing have, and we're not able to crawl as deeply as they do. That said, we do try to crawl the most important links on the web, and provide metrics you are not able to get from the search engines. We update OSE about once a month. We have more information about the index in this afternoon's blog post at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/november-mozscape-index-is-live
Hope this helps!