Back link from the Root Domain vs Internal Page

Ever look at big authority sites like ebay, amazon, etc wondering how their internal pages often rank without many links to the page? Think about it. That right there demonstrates the sheer power root domain working in action flowing rank juice to other pages of the site.

Like others mentioned, it's best not to get caught up in mumbo jumbo hoopla of backlink metrics but rather focus on link quality. Study what the authorities are doing in your niche. Mimic their backlink practices as closely as possible while improving everywhere you get a chance. Authorities have been holding top spots for years.. they must be doing something right.

My take is that Google, nor any other search engine, does not use TF or CF. It is a third party metric with no bearing on the search engines. Plus you have to remember that Majestic may not even have enough data to calculate TF or CF accurately.

For example, what if I released a new article 2 days ago that went viral. It attracts tons of great, high quality links naturally. It will take Majestic weeks, if not months, to pick up all those links. Likely they will never find much more than half of them. No backlink checker ever finds them all. So when you check the TF and CF, they are both going to be extremely low, maybe even zero. But that is in no way accurate.

There are tons of other cases you can think of where TF and CF are not going to be accurate either.


What I would be looking at is pretty simple. Is the page and/or the site relevant to my page? If the answer is yes, than it is probably a good link.

You could ask yourself this simple question and save yourself hours of analyzing a bunch of metrics.

Another question you could ask yourself is this: Pretend one of your prospects/customers found the link page. They no nothing about SEO. They stumbled on the page though. "Is this link enhancing or hurting your reputation?" If it is not enhancing your business or site's reputation, you should probably think again about building it.

Follow that, and you likely will never build a link that will harm your site.

Or you can spend hours pouring over inaccurate 3rd party metrics.

You should of course take Majestic's scores with a pinch of salt, but you're reading them more of less the right way. Or at least that's what Majestic's rep told me.

As Mike F. said it usually takes Majestic at least a couple of weeks to register new links, and their scores may never reflect the reality. In my opinion Majestic's stats are working best on a domain/site level. I'm using them mostly to quickly evaluate a link profile, and get a broad view of the link building activities.

Please also note that Majestic's niche/industry list tends to be very broad, and very inaccurate at times.