How to check Page Authority in bulk?

[thegreatpursuit]

Hey guys,

I'm on the free trial for SEOmoz PRO and I'm in love. One question, though. I've been looking all over the internet for a way to check Page Authority in bulk. Is there a way to do this? Would I need the SEOmoz API? And what is the charge?

All I really need is a way to check Page Authority in bulk--no extra bells and whistles.

Thanks,

Brandon

[DanHill]

You can do a linkscape backlink analysis on a site and get 10k backlinks and export to excel - can also use OSE(open site explorer).

I think you're going to need to be more clear as to what you want to check on mass - serp's for a specific keyword perhaps or do you mean backlinks for a specific site/domain?

[thegreatpursuit]

Hi Daniel,

I have a long list of different URLs (different domains), and I want to check the Page Authority for all of them.

[Content_Kimber27]

If you have some basic coding skills (or even just a decent grasp), I would definitely go with the free API.  You can pass the url-metrics API all your URLs in bulk via PHP and return page authority for each.  I'd go into more details, but SEOMoz has some pretty good documentation already:
http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/13991153/URL-Metrics-API

They have a cap at 1mil URLs per month, so hopefully your definition of "bulk" doesn't exceed that.

[thegreatpursuit]

Heh, I'm a total and utter PHP noob. I don't know if this is allowed to say here (apologies if it's not), but I'd be happy to pay someone to do it for me here. If I can't do that, can you recommend a good place for me to hire someone to write the code? And what do I need to provide them for them to be able to write it?

Thank you so much!

[Content_Kimber27]

No worries, we're all noobs at some point.  I'm currently working on something similar as a side project (doesn't have the bulk aspect though, just setting up a personal system to keep tabs on certain link targets via url-metrics and recording/comparing aggregate results over time).  I'd say your best bet for finding someone would be here - whether that's allowed, I don't know either - or maybe even just source a hungry computer science undergrad at your local college?  For someone well-versed in PHP or similar, this probably wouldn't take more than a few hours of time spent coding.

You'd need to provide them with the SEOMoz API documentation, and also follow the basic steps here to generate the credentials for your account:
http://www.seomoz.org/api

And also, I'd start by digging around in the API Wiki linked at the bottom of that page.  Lots of good writeups for making basic API calls and such, sample code, etc. You can even make a basic call with just a web browser if you'd like to see what kind of data you get from the API.

[thegreatpursuit]

OK, great, thank you.

Is there a forum on SEOmoz where I can ask for professional help? Or do I just submit another question?

Thanks.