How can we efficiently use Fresh Web Explorer and Just Discovered Links?

[AdamThompson]

Love the fresh data sources SEOmoz is building for us. However, I'm frustrated by the lack of scale the tools offer.

Let's say I have 30 competitors I want to watch (which is pretty conservative - if we're targeting 100 keywords on a site, we could easily have 100's of top 20 ranked competitors). If I have to run individual reports for each using OSE and Fresh Web Explorer, that would be hours of work every day/week.

Ideally, I'd like to see a campaign feature where you could add 2-200 competitors to view in one report. You could view recent links (from FWE and JDL) for all competitors on one handy report, and sort by various metrics. So for example, if you wanted to view the top 10 links your competitors have gotten in the past week, you could see that in 30 seconds of work, vs many hours of work.

Any others who think this would be useful?

Any ideas for how we can use the data in such a way without this feature?

[AdamThompson]

Hi Tela,

Thanks for the reply. I'm a bit surprised more users haven't been asking for a feature like this. I think it would be great for doing outreach to sites where your competitors just got a link within the past week - strike while the iron is hot.

I've been doing a bit of this, but the current interfaces make it a bit time consuming.

Main thing I want is to be able to quickly view recent links (preferably from both sources) to a bunch of competitor URLs, in one location (without having to run multiple reports). This could be accomplished by a campaigns type tool, RSS feeds, an API, etc.

[The_Tela]

Hi Adam -

I love this thread - thank you so much for starting this. I'm deeply interested in the ways that you and other customers would like to see this fresh data combined, how you would like to view it, and the time ranges that this information is useful for you. We launched these features separately to get customer feedback before creating a more integrated solution.

I'd enjoy hearing from other folks in the discussion group on this. Is a combined view of URLs/links and mentions valuable? Would you like to see it divided? Are hourly updates often enough, or even too often?

To set expectations, the scale of data that we are dealing with is challenging, so please understand I can't make any promises that features discussed here will get into the final product. We are still in the planning phase of different scenarios, and will continue to listen to customer feedback here and elsewhere to decide on the final product plan.

Thanks again, Adam and to all those who join this conversation.