Why can i see domain links for competitors form social media sites such as pinterest and youtube but not for myself??

[RobAdair1]

When doing competitor analyse i can see that they are getting domain links form youtube and pinterest yet when i analyse my own links i do not have these.

My Google analytics shows me that iam getting traffic from these sources so why is it not showing up for me? and is this affecting my moz rank?

[JordanRailsback]

Hi there!
Solid question! This is likely stemming from the fact that sites like YouTube and Pinterest are absolutely massive. Since we aim for our link index to show results from large numbers of sources and not get diluted by all of the millions of links from enormous sites, we limit the number of pages crawled on each domain to ~50,000.

As a result, there could certainly be links on those domains pointing to your site that we're not reporting on because they are buried deeper within the site structure than the links to your competitors. I hope this helps to explain! Feel free to hit me up with any further questions or concerns!