Does OSE Anchor Text Distribution CSV include internal links or external only?
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Quite often when I'm using OSE and perform a CSV export, it looks like the total inbound link count and many phrases come from internal links for the domain in question. I haven't had the time to try and figure this out and don't know exactly how to go about figuring it out.
So the initial question is does OSE's anchor text distribution CSV include internal links or are they external only? And alternately, how do I test for this? I deal with sites that have tens or hundreds of thousands of pages and hundreds of thousands or millions of links...
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Hey Websensible,
No, we haven't fixed it - because it isn't really bug - we are just grouping all anchor text counts (internal and external) together at the moment.
I am guessing any similarities between the counts is just coincidence since we haven't changed this behavior.
-Kate
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Has that been fixed now? I'm asking becuase I just downloaded an anchor text distribution report and the total links (for all anchor text) are almost exactly the same number as the total external inbound links given on OSE.
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Hello Journeyman!
Great question - right now the anchor text contains both internal and external links and there isn't a good way to see which is which from the csv
We all here at SEOmoz recognize this shortcoming so we are planning to add the ability to drill down on the anchor text and see which links use which anchor text. That feature is coming out sometime this summer
Hope that helps and have a great day!
Kate
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