Unable to view link from Apprentices gov.uk site

[GoMetrics]

Hi, I've noticed that when some companies are advertising for apprentices on the https://apprenticeshipvacancymatchingservice.lsc.gov.uk website they gain a followed link from the site. When I then use opensiteexplorer the link doesn't show. Does anyone know the reason for Moz not picking this up? Am I not giving it long enough to show? Your help would be very much appreciated.

[BlueprintMarketing]

There is not one company that can pick up every single link that is on the web.

Anyone that has advertising on a website should not be getting a followed link.

All advertisements and affiliate links should be no follow

if you are trying to find links that are pointing to somebody else's site not pointing towards your site right?

I would use https://moz.com/researchtools/crawl-test

To find the links that are pointing to other people's domains. They are going to be able to be found very easily that way.

Just so you are aware no one tool on the web can find every single backlink.

For instance Moz open site Explorer needs to index your site along with other tools like MajesticSEO and Ahrefs

If you use all three of them and Google Webmaster tools you most likely have no issue finding what you need in terms of back links.

Moz OSE tends to be more like Google Webmaster tools and find more live links then dead links

Remember you must give all the tools time however you are looking for outbound links not inbound links or back links.

I use a combination of OSE & Aherfs some people like to use all three others different combinations. This is my choice and I think it is wise to use a combination of tools if you are doing back link exploration.

Hope this help,

Tom

[GoMetrics]

Hi Tom,

Thanks for your reply. What I'm trying to do is find a particular link from the domain https://apprenticeshipvacancymatchingservice.lsc.gov.uk which is the uk apprenticeship vacancy website to the website of the company advertising the position which in a particular case is www. homecolours .com.

I cannot seem to see this backlink even though the backlink is from a very high authoritative .gov site.

When using opensiteexplorer it doesn't show and I was wondering if I'm not giving it enough time to show up. Is there another tool which I can use to find a specific backlink rather try to discover as many backlinks as possible?

Kind regards,GoMetrics

[GoMetrics]

Is anyone able to solve this please it's still unanswered?

Thanks.

[BlueprintMarketing]

I just did a very thorough search for you I used open site explorer, Ahrefs & majesticSEO

None of them found the URL or TLD that you were looking for that does not mean it does not exist however if it  was recently linked to your domain then this could mean it is just not being picked up. There is a lot of information below including all the links to your site in a CSV

you have a lot of backlinks from directories I searched quite a bit I could not find it however your welcome to go to this CVS of your back links right here

http://cl.ly/WKzg

All TLD's according to Ahrefs that are pointing to your domain.

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larger image of  top TLD's pointing to your site

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I am sorry to say that I do not believe it is pointing to your site or it is not being picked up by either OSE, Ahrefs, majesticSEO

I hope this is of more help,

Thomas

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[BlueprintMarketing]

I did a check with Ahrefs, OSE as well as majesticSEO I could not find it please reference the information below and I did put the backlinks I was able to find in a CVS file you can download here

http://cl.ly/WKzg

all the best,

Tom

[KeriMorgret]

Roger (the crawler for Moz) does not fill out forms. I can't see a way to find a listing without doing a search, and OSE would need to be able to browse these listings to be able to see them.