O.S.E. vs Webmaster Tools
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Webmaster tools is telling me I have a bunch of websites pointing to my website, and I have been adding links as of the last 3 weeks which WM Tools is already seeing. Open Site Explorer isn't really showing any of them? My site has gone from bottom of page 5 to page 2 in just 3 weeks so I'm happy about that but can anyone explain this to me?
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Hi there,
Top place "/" will be your homepage.
"Not mentioned" or "not provided" or "not set" are increasingly prevalent and based on users being logged in to a Google account when searching.
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In Google Webmaster Tool, While Checking for Traffic Source for My Blog !
Get a Top place always "/" and "Not Mentioned" in terms of Keyword !
What Does it Mean ! -
I ran AHrefs and got ahref rank of 99.1. Ive never used the site before, is that good?
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I would suggest the issue is in the title.
It's not OSE vs. WMT
It's OSE + WMT.
OSE, Ahrefs, Majestic, WMT, and all the other backlink check methods will always produce less than 100% of your links. OSE seems to purposely ignore some lower-quality ones, Majestic seems to find a lot of duplicate links on other pages and AHrefs seems to give me the "best" results. If you put Ahrefs + OSE + WMT + Majestic, you get the best results, though.
WMT also seems to discover most links fastest. But I use OSE for much of our backlink research currently.
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Yes WMT is going to have the most detailed list of all domains pointing. OSE and others could show anywhere between 5-20 or 30% of a link profile. I believe that WMT may show 50%+. Bear in mind these numbers are just indicative of what I have seen on our numerous websites and also what I have read. You are never going to have 100% of all links reported anywhere, it is all about getting the best possible picture you can and working from there.
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So WMT is the best place to see whats actually pointing at the site? I actually see a few domains on WMT that I know for a fact have 301 redirects on them so there is literally no way it could be pointing to my website anymore.
Also its much different. WMT is saying I have 65 domains linking and OSE is saying like 18.
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Hi Jonathon,
WMT is always going to show a far larger index of links compared to OSE or Ahrefs or any other backlink database. OSE and any other tools like that are only every going to give you a picture of your link profile, never the whole picture. We use these tools mainly for competitor research and to support WMT for our own sites.
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