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    • MrFrisbee
      MrFrisbee last edited by

      My clients site so far only has a few inbound links.  If I do a report on MOZ/Open Site Explorer it only lists 10 domains linking in and, a number of important ones are not on that list.

      As an example, one of the leading UK national newspapers (Daily Telegraph) has a link on this page to the client www.vidavida.co.uk and yet this link/domain does not appear in the above reports.

      Is this an intentional nofollow type thing that the telegraph does and is there a way for me to check that on their site/page?

      http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG8655068/Holiday-travel-in-style.html

      Any comments most appreciated.

      Thanks,
      C

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      • FedeEinhorn
        FedeEinhorn last edited by

        How new is the Website?

        Does the links shows up under "Recently Discovered"?

        Keep in mind that recently created backlinks take some time to come up in the backlink report. Besides, some links may never appear as OSE only crawls a portion of the web.

        Keep checking back and if the links is 1 - 2 weeks old, take a look to WMT to see if it shows up there (where it actually matters), they also take a few days to refresh that report (recently discovered).

        Hope that helps!

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        • BenjaminBeck
          BenjaminBeck last edited by

          Like what Federico said it takes time for these pages to get found and indexed.

          Moz's isn't able to index the web at the level that Google is able to. So just because it's not showing up in Moz yet doesn't mean that Google hasn't found and indexed it yet.

          Other ways that you can monitor inbound links:

          • Set up alerts with Google Alerts & TalkWalker.com
          • Check referrals in Google Analytics, new referrals sources could be from other sites linking to you.
          • Other backlink checkers that you could check, besides OSE, ahrefs & majestic seo

          Hope this answers your question.

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