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Hi Joel,

Thank you for your response.

Hi,

I am forming below url to get backlinks.

http://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/url-metrics/".$trimurl."?Cols=2048

&AccessID=".$accessID."

&Expires=".$expires."

&Signature=".$urlSafeSignature;

For Example, if I keep $trimurl = "www.tatvic.com/" , I get  [uid] => 633.

Is this a right way to get number of backlinks ? If not, what should be the 'Cols' value?

Also, how can I ensure that the number of links I am getting is correct ? Is there any way to compare this number with Google search results? This is very essential to check as I got different number of backlinks on different APIs.

Thank you.

Hi...

Thank you so much for your reply..

I was implementing  the changeswhich may work.. but they didn't.

I recently came to know about updates to seomoz api which are like,

• SEOmoz Free API: 1 request for every 10 seconds
• Free Extended and PRO Members: 1 request every 5 seconds
• SEOmoz Site Intelligence API: 1 request every 2 seconds

I think this will help me a lot .. thank you ..

Some pages are the pages which are moved or not found. I am trying to ignore such pages by getting http response code. But this process takes large amount of time. Almost 10 minutes for a single url of sitemap.xml.

The url of call is like : (php)

http://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/links/URL HERE?SourceCols=4&TargetCols=4&Scope=page_to_page&Sort=page_authority&Limit=1000&Filter=follow&AccessID=" . $accessID . "&Expires=" . $expires . "&Signature=" . $urlSafeSignature;

Thanks .

Hi,

I am using LinkScape API to get follow and nofollow links .

I use cron to get data for each url of sitemap.xml.

However while cron is running, the extraction of data hangs on some pages which i later need to delete manually for re starting the execution.

Do anyone have any idea why this is happening ? How can i ignore such pages ?

Oky ...Thank you...

Let me know if you can develop such feature of getting direct link counts for different filters ...

hey thank you for your reply . The url I am using is like : "http://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/links/".urlencode($url_to_check)."?SourceCols=4&TargetCols=4&Scope=page_to_page&Sort=page_authority&Limit=1000&Filter=follow"."&AccessID=".$accessID."&Expires=".$expires."&Signature=".$urlSafeSignature;

There is one request at a time for a link.

Thanks!

I am using free link API to get total number of internal links,
external links, follow links and no follow links by using *
http://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/links/* url.

I have given following attributes along with the url as,

• SourceCols=4
• TargetCols=4
• Scope=page_to_page
• Sort=page_authority
• Limit=1000
• Filter=nofollow

By implementing this, I am getting array for each filter and by counting
array size, I can get the count of total links.

This is a long procedure and seomoz link API is taking a long response time.

Is there any way by which I can get the total number of link for each
filter directly ? Or is there any other alternative ?

Here are two things what you might want to do.

First,Try writing a javascript which passes a google analytics call every 30 second on that page. Event tracking should suffice for this in below format.your actual bounce rate would be affected but you will be able to identify the frequency distribution of people who bounce within different time span. You can choose 30 to 60 sec or even 10 sec interval frequency.

gaq_push(_trackevents,category = br_test,action=stillthere,label=30sec,value=30)

after another 30 second google analytics call should be like this

gaq_push(_trackevents,category = br_test,action=stillthere,label=60sec,value=60)

The real purpose here is to keep constantly checking the engagement & learn the frequency distribution of time user spends before he actually exits from the website. When you see that out of 100 bounces 20% bounces are within first 30 second , you can conclude that they are not just due to price as price is clearly visible.

Let me know if you need help with JS & I'd probably write it on my blog.

Secondly, you should try running some feedback campaign with Kissinsights, as it might help unearthing real issue from consumer itself.

Best luck with your effort !

Ravi