How can a competitor show no internal links?

[addventures]

I'm comparing metrics between my site and competitors. Statistics on Site Explorer show that one competitor has no internal links. How is that possible?

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Thanks for your insight.

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[AlanMosley]

If OSE has not crawled that site, then they will not have that info. How long have you had them in your campaign as a compeditor? I assume that OSE exporer will crawl them next time since you have them listed.

[addventures]

We've only had them listed for a short time, maybe a day or so. So, it's safe to assume this is a false return and would need more time to do a full crawl before having a definite number?

Thanks for your help.

[AlanMosley]

Yes, OSE is due for a update any day now, so you may have to wait another month if you only added a day or so ago.

[RyanKent]

Can you share the URL of the competitor's site?

Alan is correct that one possible cause is a site could not be indexed by OSE, but that is not the case in this situation. That would only apply to a new site or a site with very low DA. The site you list with the problem shows a PA of 49 so it should be listed in OSE.

My next thought is perhaps the site is fully flash based or otherwise has a bad navigation design. If we could see the site we could offer better feedback.