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    What percentage of total backlinks are shown by "Open site explorer" tool?

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    • RyanSat
      RyanSat last edited by

      What percentage of total good quality back links are shown  in the "Open site" or other toolbar. I was checking backlinks for a spammy sites which ranks in #3-5 for a competitive keyword.But could not find nothing more than 10-15 PR4-5 in content backlinks and rest are just forum/profile signatures.

      24% Trust/Authority of the Host Domain
      22% Link Popularity of the Specific Page
      20% Anchor Text of External Links
      15% On-Page Keyword Usage
      7% Traffic and Click-Through Data
      6% Social Graph Metrics
      5% Registration and Hosting DataI

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      • dittoeffect
        dittoeffect last edited by

        For one of my sites comparing to google webmaster tools on a page that has been established for over a year webmaster tools lists 30000 links and opensite explorer lists about 3333 links so about 11% though i doubt it will be 11% for all sites as there could be many factors involved in this effect.

        number of linking domains is about 90% of what it says in webmaster tools.

        hope this helps

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