Link analysis task
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Hi mozzers,
I am currently working on a phd, and one of the professors asked me for help.
He would like to know how many Danish school websites (n=1500) links to a certain section of a government website (the relevant section has around 1600 pages). The problem is, that the government website is coded very poorly from an seo perspective with lots of strange URL variables, entailing OSE can't give valid data.
So, what would be the best way to check how many of the school websites link? Throw all 1500 website through Xenu, or is there a smarter solution? Maybe the link out feature on Bing?
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciate.
Thanks!
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Exactely.
Sometimes I am not aware of an answer or question due to to much traffic here in the Q&A section ... I kind of loosing the overview
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Thank you all for the answers - Incredible helpful!
And yes, this open q&a is great - I am sure it will dominate serious SEO discussions by the end of this year
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Hey Thomas: I just sat through the video for the tool and it looks amazing! They say it uses 12 different sources for their link data(SEOmoz Linkscape, Majestic SEO, Google data, Yahoo, Technorati, etc.) THen it sounds like they give you a live verification. So to answer your question, it looks like it's doing both.
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Sweet Petra! This site was completely off my radar. I really like the collective intelligence this Q&A is bringing to SEOmoz.
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Thank you, Dejan.
Correct me if I am wrong - bur Majestic has a pretty deep crawl of the web right? We are examining websites with potential very few ingoing links.
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I would suggest Majestic SEO to get solid backlinks and Excel to filter out URLs that do not belong to a desired section.
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One more question: Is Cemper's tools based on an a priori crrawling like SEOmoz or a live crawling like Xenu?
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Cool didn't knoe the tool could do it. ALways avoided the website as I do with most other keyword rich domain names
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E.g. buying a 72 hours day pass - http://www.linkresearchtools.com/products-overview/ for Euro 20,- - worth the money - even Ann Smarty recommended the tool.
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