Google Webmaster Tools and Open Site explorer's links not matching up
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My question is why do my GWT's links not match up to the ones on Open Site Explorer. I watched John Mueller's video, and he said that they had problems with the link counts recently. After checking my links today, I can see that the problem is fixed, but my link count differs from Open Site Explorer. On Web Master Tools I have 307 links, but on Open Site Explore I have 42. Has anyone dealt with this problem? thanks.
Peter
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Thanks for the response Keri, I appreciate it.
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Hi Peter,
SEOmoz and Google use different crawlers. We're not quite the size of Google, and the server farm we have doesn't quite match theirs either. Simply put, we don't crawl as many URLs as Google, so we won't show as many links.
We DO try to crawl the higher-value links, and we show links for more than just the sites you have verified in Google Webmaster Tools. We also have some nifty metrics along with our links that you won't find at Google.
Things won't ever match up, but looking at the variety of sources for link data will help you get a better idea of the big picture.
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