SEOmoz API? – "Limited access is included ... PRO membership." ?

[josey]

Can someone expand on what you actually get with your pro membership on the Site Intelligence API.

API page.

Thanks

[DonnieCooper]

Hey josey, unfortunately we don't get any extra access to the api with a pro membership. You can read more about it here.

Does this help?

[josey]

The page I linked to above says Pro members get 'limited' access. You know how much access this is? (snippet below, from my iPhone sorry for poor formatting. . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The SEOmoz Site Intelligence API The Site Intelligence API is designed to deep dive into a site or page. It's great if you're building a robust application for internal or external use. Check out all the cool data you get. Attribution is not required. But you must follow our branding requirements *Limited access is included with a Premier level PRO membership. You can also purchase unlimited access to this service separately. ... Check out our pricing information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[caseyhen]

Hi Josey,

As a PRO member you get access to the SEOmoz Free API, which allows you to access to 3 calls, url-metrics, links, and anchor-text.  Each of those calls is limited from the full paid version and those limitations are listed on this page, SEOmoz Free API.  If you have any other question please contact help@seomoz.org

Thanks!

[MikeGracia]

Hi, I found this question after being confused by the same page! I think this is important...

In that case the page in question should be altered, as at present it indicates that there is limited access to the site intelligence API... NOT the free one. Check it out: http://www.seomoz.org/api  ->>> Quite clearly states, in the 'site intelligence API' box (e.g. NOT in the free API box, to the left of the page, but in the clearly labelled 'Site Intelligence API' box, that:

"Limited access is included with a Premier level PRO membership. You can also purchase unlimited access to this service separately."

So, if it is the FREE API that the premier level PRO membership gives a limited access to, then why is it detailed as being the Site Intelligence API? Surely that is actually false advertising? (Obviously unintentional! I really like SEOMoz! but I do think this page needs updating, so it is not advertising a benefit that isn't actually there!).

(See the image below).

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[caseyhen]

Your correct that pages needs updating an in fact we have a new version rolling out in the next few weeks. As for the "premier" level access to the Site Intelligence API, this is for one of our old PRO levels call "premier". Currently we have 5 levels of PRO, they are PRO, PRO Plus, PRO Elite, PRO Agency, and PRO Enterprise. The PRO Premier level no longer exists which is why if you want access to the Site Intelligence API you need to pay for it separately from your PRO membership.

[MikeGracia]

Ahhh! Okay thanks

Looking forward to the updated page Personally I think that as SEOMoz is all about best practice, it would be super-cool just to pull that line out... it's confusing & misleading! 2 things I don't normally associate with the Moz team!

I am currently using the free API, but am considering the paid version... just trying to crunch some numbers and make sure we would get the ROI needed first in terms of saving time with manual checks

Cheers Casey

Mike.