Is it possible to export Inbound Links in a CSV file categorized by Linking Root Domains ?

[Feweb]

Hi,

I am performing an analysis of the total inbound links to my homepage and I would like to have the total amount of inbound links categorized by the Linking root domains.

For example, the Open Site explorer does offer the feature to show you the Linking Root Domains to your page. Then when you click on the first Linking Root Domain, it also shows you the Top Linking Pages ( Which means all the pages that link to your page from this particular top level domain)

Now I would like to export this data to a CSV file, but open site explorer only exports the total amount of top level linking domains.

Does anyone has a solution to this problem ?

Thank you very much for the help in advance!

[Chris.Menke]

Arne, isn't that something you would do after it is downloaded by sorting your columns in your excel or google docs spreadsheet?  Your download contains all the same data as you see on the screen, ie. linking root domain, domain authority, and linking root domain.  Is there something else you're trying to do?

[Feweb]

Thank you for the answer Chris!

Yes that is correct, by sorting the spreadsheet by the URL simply from A to Z I can extract a list of all links from a particular root domain. However, then I will still have to manually (or automatically) count the links. This can be time consuming.. I was wondering if moz.com relate links to each other and export this..

[CleverPhD]

There is logic built into Excel that allows you to both COUNT and COUNTIF or COUNTA

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/countif-function-HP010069840.aspx

If you are wanting to count the total number of domains you can setup a function to count non blank cells

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/count-nonblank-cells-HP003056101.aspx

=COUNTA(A2:A6)

This would count non blank cells from A2 though A6.

You can use this also to count if you have a value that is greater than a given number.  Say you wanted to see all the linking domains with a DA greater than 20

=COUNTIF(B2:B7,">20")

You get the idea.  Note that you may need to format your number cells as Numbers to get this to work.

You should be able to use one of the logic functions above in Excel to get you what you need.

[Feweb]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts CleverPhD.

Since the Domain Authority is the same for every link that springs from the same root domain, I already thought to use the given Domain authority in order to create a separate list.

However, different linking root domains can have the same domain authority. Thus, If I would like to summarize all links from one domain automatically I will have to establish a extended function that relates the domain authority to the text (name) stored as URL.

For example:

DA                              URL

18           http://blog.moneymanagedproperly.com/?cat=8

18           http://fulano.info/wordpress/?m=201008

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I was wondering how to do this without creating a single function for each root domain (for example  = COUNTIF(B2:B3;" =http://blog.* "

I am keen to know what are your thougts on this example?

[CleverPhD]

You are correct.  Excel should be able to match on that example or one similar to it.  You may need to do some reading within the Microsoft help pages to see how it uses regular expressions (for example I dont know if you need the asterisk in your query).  Just mess around with the function and you should be able to figure it out.