No links from Pinterest, wordpress, yahoo, etc.

[jamavan]

I'm new to moz and trying to go through some of the tools. I was looking at the link analysis and I had a couple questions

1. I don't see any links from good sites that do show up in my webmaster tools - wordpress, yahoo, pinterest. Just a bunch of spammy sites that I've been trying to shake off for years now and even though we've completely redesigned the entire site they're still there.
2. I have 21 links from my own domain. How do I fix that?

[MoosaHemani]

Awesome, I will answer to your question one by one and to the point.

1. Mozscape have a limited index which is defiantly not as big as Google’s index which is why Google webmaster might show you some more links that Mozscape is not tracking at the moment.
2. No matter if you redesigned your website completely the links will stay there. The only way to get rid of spammy links is to either contact them and remove them or update a link disavow file to Google and tell them you do not wish to receive a link juice from the following websites.
3. Links from your own domain. I am considering them as internal links and internal links are totally fine.

Hope this helps!

[Ria_]

Probably worth mentioning too that Mozscape doesn't update that often. So if the links are quite new, you may have to wait until at least the next update to see them in your link analysis. It can be like 2 months in between updates.... Basically if they say next update is mid-September, it'll come mid-October. But yeah, take Moz's link analysis with a pinch of salt and use in combination with other tools. I find ones that Moz picks up that others don't too so.

[jamavan]

Thanks or the help. I've read that google can sometimes not be as accurate at reporting links as well. I'll look into the disavow option.