Why Alexa show less backlinks?

[shanewatson]

Hi, I am the owner of more than 10 websites and most of them are getting good traffic. Last week, I was searching my site info through Alexa tool and seen here only few backlinks (430 links only) are showing while I checked in Google webmaster, here showing more than 30,000 backlinks.

Can someone tell why Alexa showing minimum backlinks? And, this is real or just showing few backlinks because I am using it's free tool.

[SamWylde]

(03-06-2013 06:07 PM)shanewatson Wrote:  Hi, I am the owner of more than 10 websites and most of them are getting good traffic. Last week, I was searching my site info through Alexa tool and seen here only few backlinks (430 links only) are showing while I checked in Google webmaster, here showing more than 30,000 backlinks.

Can someone tell why Alexa showing minimum backlinks? And, this is real or just showing few backlinks because I am using it's free tool.

Alexa is pretty useless for anything other than traffic stats. They track the backlinks DOMAINS, not each individual backlinks.


Use Ahrefs or Majesticseo to track backlinks.

[sinip]

Also, Alexa doesn't update backlinks every day, but once in a while.

[howardt]

On Alexa.com is states "results are only accurate if you are in the top 100k", and the lower traffic ranking you get, the more accurate your score is