How are the metrics measured in Open Site Explorer?

[aricom]

I am using Open Site Explorer to measure some metrics. The Facebook Shares, Facebook Likes, Tweets, and Google +1 metrics make no sense to me. Where and how are these being pulled? Is there a timeframe attached? Can I assign a timeframe to them? I have a ShareThis account that states one of my pages was liked over 3000 times but the metrics say 1 like. Very confused.

Thanks for any help!

Ari

[RyanKent]

There are "likes" and "shares". Any chance these two items are being confused?

Also, if your Like button is mis-coded, it is possible to "Like" the wrong page.

Another potential source of confusion, there are Likes for your facebook page, and Likes for your website page.

If you determine none of the above are the issue, please share the URL. If you are not able to do so, I would suggest contacting help@seomoz.org as the help desk offers direct support of the tools.