SEOMOZ Competitive Domain Analysis

[gdavies09031977]

Hi,

I am just trying to get to the bottom of why I am seeing such wildly different figures in the SEOMOZ link analysis.

The SEO company that we use is saying that we have around 331 external links to our website, when I check on Yahoo site explorer, it returns 264 external links, but in my SEOMOZ campaign manager, it says I have 4 external links?

I fully appreciate that none of these methods are going to be wholly accurate, and are going to produce different results, but I can't understand why the SEOMOZ results are so vastly different.

I also know for a fact there are a number of Followed links that I have added to a couple of websites, that Google has now indexed (as they appear in search results), but don't appear in the campaign manager results.

If SEOMOZ use a different method to assess an external link, then no problem - my main concern here is that as a Newbie I am doing something wrong within the SEOMOZ tools, and don't want to take action based on results that may be incorrect because I have set things up incorrectly?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,

Gareth

[RyanKent]

SEOMOZ use a different method to assess an external link, then no problem

SEOmoz does use a different method. The links you see are based on the Linkscape crawl of the web which is updated approximately once per month. The Linkscape database is based on the top 25% of internet pages. If your links are from pages which have low PA/DA, then they will not appear in Linkscape and therefore, they will not show in the SEOmoz tools.

The Linkscape index is normally pretty good but you should understand it can take two months for a link to appear depending on when a page is crawled versus when a link is added. Also know there were some issues with the last crawl which should (hopefully) be resolved with the next results.

If your SEO company can provide you a list (Excel?) of the 331 links, you can compare them to the links from Yahoo and determine the discrepancy.