Dates on Opensite Explorer?

[VISISEEKINC]

Hi All,

I was wondering if there is any chance of getting dates out of OpenSiteExplorer, either via the API or the web menu.

This would be hugely useful for competitor research to see how strategies were shifting over time, etc, and I can't imagine it would be that difficult on the development end: just time stamp when writting a new link/domain to the database.

Any chance I am missing this, or getting this?

Brian

[brad.s.knutson]

My understanding is that the Mozscape index is unique every time it's generated.  Each time a new index comes out, it is a new craw of your inbound links, and the old index is trashed.  At MozCon, it was alluded to that the development team was looking into ways of determining which pages are updated less frequently, and re-crawling those pages less often - allowing the Mozscape index to complete faster and use less resources.

In short - everything you see in OSE was crawled recently (in the 30 days leading up to the last index update).

[VISISEEKINC]

Thanks, Brad,

Thats useful. So then the logic would be:

• If the link already exists in the database import the old crawl date
• else, input the current date

That would be, I would think, pretty simple from a development standpoint and make for (in my opinion) much more robust intelligence, allowing you to look at how link velocity and strategy evolve over time, sort for new prospects, etc.

Does it seem useful to anyone else?

[brad.s.knutson]

It's probably something that the Moz dev team can look into.  I know that GWMT keeps track of when they first crawled a new link to your site, and you get get it by exporting your list of links.

[VISISEEKINC]

Hi Brad,

Yeah, GWMT is great for domains I control, but having this for competitor domains would be fantastic.

Thanks!