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    • A_Fotografy
      A_Fotografy last edited by

      Hello,

      Just was checking my backlinks and I see that few very strong backlinks are not showing up in my links list. I check with Moz bar in my browser and those are all dofollow links.

      Some of those sites link back to me a while ago.

      Thanks,

      Regards,

      Armands

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      • vcj
        vcj last edited by

        Hi Armands,

        Moz updates their index about once a month. Next update in June 21st.

        Also, while the Moz index is rather large it's not all encompassing, which means there are backlinks that it just won't find.

        Here's some more information that you might find helpful:

        http://moz.com/community/q/open-site-explorer-not-detecting-linking-domain-on-my-site

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        • solvid
          solvid last edited by

          Hi,

          Althought OSE is a great tool, it's not 100% accurate. Sometimes there will be a delay and sometimes it won't show some of your links. The main purpose of OSE (in my opinion) - is competitive analysis to find link opportunities.

          Thanks,

          Dmytro

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          • Bigb06
            Bigb06 last edited by

            Also some websites may have blocked Moz crawler, with the meta

            So all their links won't show in OpenSiteExplorer

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