description Open Site Explorer Overview
Open Site Explorer is a free online tool that analyzes a website’s backlinks to reveal its authority and identify referring domains, providing data on link quantity, quality, and potential referral traffic for SEO research.
help Open Site Explorer FAQ
Does Open Site Explorer still exist?
Moz retired the original Open Site Explorer and replaced it with Link Explorer in 2018. Old tutorials may still use the OSE name, but current backlink research is performed through Moz's newer link index and interface.
What happened to Page Authority and Domain Authority in Open Site Explorer?
Those Moz metrics continue in Link Explorer even though the original tool was retired. Domain Authority estimates a domain's ranking strength, while Page Authority applies a similar predictive model to an individual URL.
Can Moz Link Explorer find links that Google Search Console misses?
It can show links not present in a Search Console export because Moz operates its own crawler and link index. The reverse is also possible, so neither data set should be treated as a complete list of every backlink on the web.
How is Open Site Explorer different from Ahrefs Site Explorer?
Open Site Explorer was Moz's product and emphasized metrics such as Domain Authority and Spam Score. Ahrefs Site Explorer uses its own crawler and metrics, including Domain Rating and URL Rating, so figures from the two platforms are not directly interchangeable.
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