Identifying Social Activity of Competition in Open Site Explorer.
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Analysing the competition in Open Site Explorer, as you all know the results come back with the following detail:
Facebook Shares
Facebook Likes
Tweets
Google +1
There is no link through to the pages that have liked, followed or tweeted the URL.
I want to understand what the competition is doing in moire detail.
How are these numbers actually defined?
Is their any way (or whats the best way) to identify the individual pages that the numbers refer to?
Thanks in advance.
Justin
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Hi Justin,
I am pretty sure the numbers are extracted directly from FB/Twitter/Google+ APIs. You can, for example, get the raw number for SEOmoz.org FB shares here: graph.facebook.com/http://www.seomoz.org
If you want better data about your competitors, you want to go to Topsy. You can see details about SEOmoz here: analytics.topsy.com/?q=seomoz.org
Thomas
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