External links cannot be found

[symagic]

HI, we have a relatively new website, and we know that there are a couple of external links to this site. But in Moz and in KWfinder, it says that there are no backlinks. We do not use robot.txt or noindex, and we have no clue how to make crawlers find the external links so that our DA will be enhanced. Anyone a solution?

Marielle

[symagic]

oh and the website is https://fueld.nl

[davebuts]

Hi Marielle,

Why do you want to "enhance your DA"? It is not associated with Google and has no impact on your rankings or traffic - it is a third party metric.

With a new website, it might take Moz a couple of months to crawl links to your site and start reporting on your DA, but it honestly doesn't matter.

It's better to focus on real metrics from Google Analytics or Google Search Console.

Cheers,

David

[Cesare.Marchetti]

Hi Marielle,

That Moz or other external tools don't show external links to your website doesn't mean a lot actually. They don't have a 100% coverage of the entire web for sure and things don't happen immediately. It takes time...They don't/can't crawl the web the same way e.g. Google does, so their view will always be incomplete. They actually say that they focus on quality rather than quantity....

It depends on the the country (TLD: .nl?, .com?, ...), importance/popularity of the linking website/your site, etc.

Look it up on The Google Search Console - Search Traffic - Links to your Site. I guess you will be able to see the linking sites earlier or later there but again this could take time. Google hast to crawl the linking website - connect it to your site and show it on Google Search Console. This can easily take weeks to happen.

Cheers,

Cesare