I've read quite a bit and spent countless hours last month trying to improve SEO for a website I've built. I understand there's no way to see 100% of the backlinks and various tools give only part of the picture, so in general the advice seems to be to use various tools to get a clearer picture. What stumbles me, is that many tools report there's no backlinks to our website. Even though it's been around for many months, and I don't see any reason which could explain why. Here's a copy-paste of what WMT reports:
Links to Your Site
Total links
No data available.
Who links the most
No data available.
Similarly, other tools I tried many times, ahrefs, Moz Open Site Explorer and SEM rush show little or no backlinks. Here's the output from OSE:
It looks like we haven't discovered link data for this site or URL.
But I know for a fact we have at least 30-40 backlinks, most from quality and known sites. An exact search by our domain name in Google ("example.com"
) shows this. So I'm really scratching my head at this point... And I'm quite concerned, since our SEO is horrible so far. I've built many sites in the last 10 years, but never have I had such a hard time with getting decent SEO results as in this case.