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Yahoo SiteExplorer API giving “wrong” results?
I was working on adding a new metric to the domain info tool, being the "deeplink ratio" (the number of links to other pages than the homepage, divided by the links to the homepage * 100), when I found out Yahoo's SiteExplorer API is giving me wrong results. It returns way less links than the SiteExplorer web interface does... Compare these two for instance:
That's weird right? Perhaps someone knows what I'm doing wrong?
I'm very certain that I'm using the same variables in both as in that I'm omitting the links from within the domain in both cases.
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by Microdesign on 26 May, 2007 at 22:35
im realy not the right person for this.. but ive seen that my seo toolbar in FireFox gives me wrong results aswell.. maybe a problem @ yahoo!
by Rose Oil on 26 May, 2007 at 22:55
The Google soap api is inaccurate as well, I'm not sure about their ajax api though. It's probably to foil spammers in some way.
by Joost de Valk on 28 May, 2007 at 09:49
Could very well be... Sucks though :)
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by RenegadeLatino on 13 July, 2007 at 08:42
I have this same problem too. I have no idea why and it really sucks. What's the point of the API if the data it gives might as well be random. If you use the change the start and results variables you get different numbers every time too.
If you figure anything out, let us know. I'd like to know.
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by Bram Bolt on 6 September, 2008 at 09:16
Great work ! ;)