Discrepancy between backlinks (opensiteexplorer vs. search console)

[Online-Marketing-Guy]

Hey there,

when I check in search console for "Links to your site" and "your most linked content" I see incoming links pointing to the wrong (country and language) subdirectory? When I check those same backlinks with opensiteexplorer they seem to point (after redirects) to the correct subdirectory. Anyone out there with similar experiences or thoughts on this? I would be happy to give access to search console if you wanted to have a look at this.

Cheers,

Jochen

When I check in search console for "Links to your site" and "your most linked content" I see incoming links pointing to the wrong (country and language) subdirectory? When I check those same backlinks with opensiteexplorer they seem to point (after redirects) to the correct subdirectory. Anyone out there with similar experiences or thoughts on this? I would be happy to give access to search console if you wanted to have a look at this.
Cheers,
Jochen

[JordanRailsback]

I'm afraid that I don't have enough experience with Google Search Console to comment on why those links might be displaying differently than expected. If at any point you need any extra help looking through Open Site Explorer's results, feel free to pop some URLs in here or send them straight over to help@moz.com.

[Eric_Rohrback]

Search Console is a sample set of your links, much like OSE is a sampling of your overall link profile. Google won't show you all your links, so its best to use multiple sources to try and piece together the puzzle.

It seems like you're saying the reported links are pointing to the wrong subdirectory but when checked manually they are correct "after redirects" to the appropriate page. Can you explain that a little more? Have you redirected URLs on your site to new pages? Curious to know what kind of redirects you're seeing.

[MattRoney]

Hi Jochen! Are you able to supply any more information for Eric?

[Online-Marketing-Guy]

Thanks Jordan and Eric for your input. In the meantime I've gotten a response from JohnMu in the Webmaster Central Help Forum. Apparently it has to do with duplicate content on our website: "We're taking some of these duplicates, and folding them into a single URL."

https://productforums.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/webmasters/ezMvrlRWuDk/q0jjp9bHDgAJ