Hi guys,
So when running an analysis on a particular URL I have specified in a project, Spyglass produces a whole heap of other Anchor URLs.
Obviously I would like spyglass to give me the results ONLY on the URL I specified for the project, but the various API's don't allow you to do that. That's fine.

However, what I would like to know, is what is the rational behind the other Anchor URLs begin generated? Does Yahoo! for example, see them as directly relevant to the Project URL I have specified?

Would you so I could legitimately run a fair report back to the CEO saying, 'this is one possible reason why this website ranks better because Spyglass pulled 1016 Anchor URLs - even when only 20 of the anchor URLs is the one we are analysing.' ?

Look forward to your answer.
Many thanks.

Currently only Yahoo (and sometimes Blekko) gives out backlinks for the specific URL you enter, the rest of the search engines will return backlinks pointing to the whole domain of the site you start a project for. That is just the way these search engines operate themselves.

The point is that if you are interested in backlinks to www.domain.com/page1.html then all links pointing to www.domain.com will bring link juice to www.domain.com/page1.html as well, because the homepage links to it.

So you can either harvest the backlinks and remove the ones not pointing to the exact page and then create your report, or include the links pointing to your domain in the report as well, simply because they matter also.

Many thanks, that's clear.

Yes, here's a post for more info about it.