Open Site Explorer Date of Links obtained

[Will_Craig]

Hi is there anyway to compare a competitors profile over two time periods ie, 6 months ago, then today for example.

I have the sites within a current campaign, i would like for example to find a competitors back-links they have obtained in the last 6 months. As some of my competitors have 1000s of links to its difficult to see what they have been upto

thanks

[Peterli]

Will,

Thanks for reaching out!  I see that you want to get have a reliable way to access historic information  Unfortunately OSE's information is on-demand, so we do not keep old indexes.  That feature however would be  a great resource to have to help keep track of linking information over a certain period, hopefully in our future iteration of our tool we will incorporate this tool.  Unfortunately without collecting that historical information manually, there is way currently to do it within the tool.

In the mean time, I would suggest you head over to our feature request section and put that in, I am sure a lot of people would love to see this in our next set of tools!  Here's the link! https://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-seomoz-pro-feature-requests

Thanks again for writing in!

Peter
Moz Help Team.

[Nobody1560986989723]

Ah, now there's two things at play - date obtained and date it appears in OSE. The date a link is obtained is not necessarily the same date as OSE indexes them. We have a particular client and we know there are loads of links (we know, we worked on obtaining them over the last year) but OSE doesn't show all of them.

The best thing you can do is start from NOW and export the data as of today (or the next day you work) and add today's date onto all the links, then maybe run that OSE report each week/month and date the new ones.

I know it's not the answer you were looking for but it's a good system moving forwards.