Count of links

[Ravi_Pathak]

I am using free link API to get total number of internal links,
external links, follow links and no follow links by using *
http://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/links/* url.

I have given following attributes along with the url as,

• SourceCols=4
• TargetCols=4
• Scope=page_to_page
• Sort=page_authority
• Limit=1000
• Filter=nofollow

By implementing this, I am getting array for each filter and by counting
array size, I can get the count of total links.

This is a long procedure and seomoz link API is taking a long response time.

Is there any way by which I can get the total number of link for each
filter directly ? Or is there any other alternative ?

[Ravi_Pathak]

Oky ...Thank you...

Let me know if you can develop such feature of getting direct link counts for different filters ...

[carinoverturf]

Hey Ravi,

If you are a Free API user, that is probably the fastest way you're going to be able to pull that data. However, if you're using the Site Intelligence API, you would be able to get those calls from the URL-metrics API call, which is much more efficient and a lot faster.

You can see the Free versus Paid list here: http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/13991153/URL Metrics API

Internal links: Links (uid) - External Links (ueid)
External links:  ueid

Follow links: External Links (ueid) - Juice-Passing Links (ujid) 
Nofollow links: Links (uid) - Juice-Passing Links (ujid)

I'm sorry I can't be more help! Let me know if you have more questions,

Carin

[Ravi_Pathak]

hey thank you for your reply . The url I am using is like : "http://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/links/".urlencode($url_to_check)."?SourceCols=4&TargetCols=4&Scope=page_to_page&Sort=page_authority&Limit=1000&Filter=follow"."&AccessID=".$accessID."&Expires=".$expires."&Signature=".$urlSafeSignature;

There is one request at a time for a link.

Thanks!

[carinoverturf]

Hey Ravi,

The links call is pretty intensive and does take some time to process requests, but there could be a way to optimize your call. Would you be able to post the final URL you are sending to the API (eliminating your secret key)?

Also, how many requests are sending in at a time? Are you sending these in as batch requests or single requests?

Thanks!
Carin