OSE Advanced for specific directory only?
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Pls how do I set up Open Site Explorer Advanced to look for backlinks to files in ONLY a certain directory?
so if the domain is 1234.com, I don't care about links to 1234.com. OSE can find those very neatly!
What I do care about is ONLY links to 1234.com/profiles and I can't seem to figure out a way to do this.
the /profiles directory has thousands of profiles in it - and we think we have hundreds of thousands of backlinks - so ideally, I'd like to use regex or DOS like filtering to look at only those which start with 9 or 8 or whatever.
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so yeah - this has worked.
thanks everybody!
you don't see the data in the normal interface, but there in the download from advanced - woot there it is!
well worth the wait!
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thanks - already tried that but just in case I didn't do it right, I just tried again.
not happening - any one of the profiles has hundreds of backlinks from dozens of domains.
the Link Metrics (shown at the top of the page) result from /profile shows only 3 domains and 300 links. This is easily off by 100 to 1000.
of course, the advanced download may show more as it has been a few minutes and it has not yet completed the spidering process.
what was is not happening- at least in the OSE standard reports - is OSE is not looking at all files in that subdirectory somehow.
I'll let you know shortly if the download shows different results.
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OSE does allow you to export backlinks to a particular subfolder, but it can be a little tricky.
1. On the OSE homepage, enter the exact directory path you want OSE to explore. This is the screen you want to enter it on, not the advanced report screen. Hit search.
2. The directory needs to end in a backslash "/". Sometimes OSE will try to redirect you to a directory without a slash. For example, it tries to redirect "seomoz.org/blog/" to "seomoz.org/blog" (no slash). But it gives you the option to see your original entry. Always choose the entry with the backslash.
3. After this, on the Advanced reports tab, choose the "Links that Link to;" option that says Any page in this subfolder. Choose any other options you want on this screen.
Viola. You are done!
This should return links only pointing to the subdirectory you specified in step 1. If you have any trouble, feel free to contact customer support.
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tried it, (with and without the trailing slashs) - it doesn't seem to work - maybe you'll have better luck.
getting them all and filtering also doesn't work as we are well in excess of the size of the data set.
can we work with boolean or regex filters?
RE the size - well this is both good and bad news... we'll get into that in a bit.
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Nope didn't work. Not sure what that feature actually does now. Once I download the CVS, it was possible to use excel to sort by the url that included the subdir. I know that is not what you are looking for, but it may help until someone else that knows chimes in.
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I am not 100% sure, but it looks like on the advanced tab you can download a CSV that will return links to a sub folder. In section 2 of the tab there is an option for: "Any page in this subfolder".
I entered a www.seomoz.org/users to run the test. I will report back once the report is done.
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