How to get the total external links to a page and total external links to the domain using Mozscape API? I could not see an option in the bit flags
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Hi,
I was trying to get the data for total external links to a page and total external links to the domain using Mozscape API but I can't see a bit flag which can do that. There are bit flags for external followed links to a page and external followed links to a domain but I wanted the total external links data, is there a way to do that using Mozscape API else I would end up copying the data manually from OSE which would be cumbersome and time consuming.
Your help is highly appreciated.
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Thanks for the email id! I will drop a mail. I would update the thread as soon as I get a response. Appreciate your response :).
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Gotcha, looks like Mozscape doesn't provide "just" internal or nofollowed for a subdomain. Too bad. Perhaps someone from SEOmoz will notice this post and respond with whether or not they can provide that information via API. Otherwise, you might want to drop them a line at help@seomoz.org.
Good luck, looks like you are working the API to the bone!
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Thanks again George!
The formula in your response would give me external nofollowed links + internal links to the subdomain. I wanted to have Total External links (followed + nofollowed) linking to the subdomain. Though this value is visible in the comparison metrics of OSE under subdomain metrics, it does not seem to have a bit flag defined in Mozscape and I was trying to find a work around by adding/substracting the URL metrics parameters but the data seems to be insufficient to do that. Still digging in to this to find a solution else at the end I would have to manually plugin the data in excel sheets which would be a pain.
I am using JsonpathonURL to get these metrics in excel sheet.
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Ah ok, do you think Links to Subdomain (bit flag value:4294967296 - Total links (including internal and nofollow links) to the subdomain of the URL) minus the Subdomain External Links (bit flag value:64 - The number of juice-passing external links to the subdomain of the URL) will give you the number of NoFollowed links?
Edit: updated second bit flag
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Thanks for the response George!
I was looking at the metrics page earlier. My problem is related to the total external links to a page and total external links to a subdomain. I am able to set the bit flags and get the external followed links to a page as well as to the subdomain but I want to find out if I can get the total external links (followed + nofollowed) excluding the internal links. I was able to find the external links to a page using the formula:
Total Link (uid 2048) - Juice Passing links (ujid 256) = NoFollowed Links
NoFollowed Links + External Links (ueid 32) = Total external links
But I cant do this for Total external links to the subdomain. I know its a bit complicated but I hope you got the picture
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Hello HQP,
You should be able to find this information here: http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/url-metrics.
The total juice-passing (followed) external links to a page should have a bit flag value of 32.
The total juice-passing (followed) external links to a root domain should have a bit flag value of 128.
You can also get the total juice-passing (internal or external) links to a page with a bit flag value of 256.
Hope this helps!
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