How does OSE select top 10,000 links
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Quick question about OSE, if you are extracting with excel all inbound links from a big site like IMDB.com, OSE only exports 10,000. However IMDB has alot more links then that.
I was wondering what criteria does OSE use to select those 10,000 links from the 100,000+ which IMDB has. Is it a random selection of those 10,000 links or does it select those 10,000 links based on metrics like DA or PA?
For the settings i have selected: followed + 301s, only external, pages on this root domain, group by domain.
Cheers,
Chris
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You should be able to get a decent sample if you run an advance report and select to only display links from different IP addresses, that will just show you links from different sites so you won't be filling up your quota with multiple links from each page.
I hope that helps. Really just spend some time playing with the parameters in the Advanced reports you'll find you can get almost any mix you're after.
Cheers,
Joel. -
Is there anyway to take a random sample of links?
Chris
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Hey Chris,
Thanks for the question.
If you're just exporting the CSV from the Inbound Links tab, it is going to be sorted by PA or DA so it will start with the highest authority pages and work down from there.If you want to view a more in-depth analysis of the back links you should look at doing an Advanced Report. That will allow you a lot more variable to apply and narrow the scope of your report.
Also, keep in mind that OSE is going to be capped at displaying 25 links per linking root domain. You can view more by drilling down into the domain itself from the linking root domain tab. It will be like this as an example:
http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?page=1&target=page&sort=page_authority&group=0&site=www.imdb.com&return_page=1&return_target=page&from_site=wikipedia.org%2FI hope that answers your question. Let me know if you need anything else.
Cheers,
Joel.
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