OSE Advanced Reports best practices

[scanlin]

I'm curious how people use the OpenSiteExplorer Advanced Reports tab. It seems very powerful. What do you use it for?

In particular, I see that it has choices for 'same C block' and 'different C block'. Those seem useful to find C blocks that my competitors have links from that I do not, but I'm not totally clear on how to construct the query. Any help or best practices would be appreciated. Thanks!

[IanTheScot]

There is a theory that spiders give more credit to domains linking to yours that aren't hosted in the same place. The idea is that these other domains are probably not owned by the same company and being used to create link farms.

So when you look at your competitor's link map, removing the same c block can possibly give you an idea if they are creating a bunch of sites themselves for link building.