@Gregger 216667 wrote:
I do think they have a good system, but their inventory of sites is much smaller and updated less often. I have a few good links that don’t show up on there at all.
From some research it also seems that it doesn’t have too much impact on rankings. I have seen similar sites, one that had high page & domain authority on OSE and the other which outranked it for every term. Unless the first guy had horrible on page it would seem OSE wasn’t a really good measure of what it took to rank, which quite frankly is all I am concerned with.
That’s a difficult measurement since OSE is only attempting to score the strength of a page, which if all things are considered equal, then the higher score would outrank the lower score. However, not all things are equal, since the content on every page is unique, domains are unique and link profiles are also unique.
For example, 2 websites might have the same score, while one ranks top 10 for “online gambling” and the other doesn’t rank top 100 because they don’t target that keyword, or haven’t gotten many backlinks with that keyword. It would be nice if OSE gave an estimate on which keywords a site should be ranking best for. It seems like the data might be there to make that estimate since they know the anchor text distribution and have a score for each of those pages linking in.