Designed new website with new domain has more than 24 million links over night on seomoz, how has this happend?

[francesco-285016]

I recently added http://www.ard.uk.com to seomoz, its a new site with a new domain. on the first overview its saying it has more than 24 million links and has a mozrank over 7, how is this possible?

[glennfriesen]

It appears that you have a sub-subdomain of the domain uk.com; not a unique domain.

Thus, your data reports that uk.com has 24 million links; but this data does not reflect links to your little subdomain of that bigger domain.

You may have meant to buy the domain http://www.ard.co.uk

{  www.ard. <-- the subdomain(s) } { uk <-- the domain } {.com <-- the TLD }

vs. { www. <-- the subdomain } { ard <-- the domain } { .co.uk <-- the TLD )

[caseyhen]

Hi Francesco,

The problem is that .uk.com is not a true TLD, like .uk.com, .com, or .org, it's actually a subdomain of the domain uk.com.  So those 24 million links you are seeing are for the domain uk.com and not your site.  The true TLD for the UK is .co.uk and not .uk.com.  So your website is really just a subdomain of a very big domain.  To get information for your site you will only be able to look at the subdomain information and not the root domain level.

Casey

[CraigBradford]

This might sound daft but just to be sure, is this perhaps an old domain that you have purchased on an auction, or one which has expired and you have re-registered? If so you can certainly inherit links which other people have built up.

[willcritchlow]

Hi Francesco,

I can't see why this is happening, but I'm going to fire it over to the customer services guys to take a look. Sorry the response is slow in coming - I'm still getting used to the new Q&A system.

[francesco-285016]

i dont understand how

[tomcraig86]

I see you have Domain Authority of 71! Thats mad!

[francesco-285016]

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[francesco-285016]

ive had a look on whois and carnt find any past history

[CPU]

Saying No Data Available for this URL when I tried to look at it on Open Site Explorer. Perhaps someone at SEOMOZ has spotted that there is an issue here?

I would look to see where it says the most valuable of the links are actually coming from.

[DavidKonigsberg]

Is the domain new or did it have a site on it maybe before you got it?

[francesco-285016]

Ive just deleted the campaign started a fresh and its the same crazy!!

[rishil]

That def seems to be an issue  - as daft as this may sound - could you double check the URL?

If thats OK - try creating a new campaign and see if that replicates - if it does, it may be a bug with the campaign tool and one for the moz staff to look into.

[francesco-285016]

http://imgur.com/MRzlp

this should load up the image, im probably doing somthing daft but ive checked everything and it all looks ok

[rishil]

Could you add a screenshot - I may be being thick - but I still dont get where you areseeing info - a screenshot may help a bit

[francesco-285016]

no when I go to competitive Link Analysis in my clients campaign were it shows links and moz rank it has 24 million links and a mozrank of 7.6? its only been live a day

[rishil]

are you talking about http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/analysis/links?url=www.ard.uk.com%2F&x=150&y=30 ?