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Backlink Analysis Metrics

by RobVJ
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So i am delving into learning about backlink analysis - how to look at the data - mainly from Ahrefs to determine it its worth trying to get a link from that domain.

I have created a spreadsheet to do all the calculations, find the ratios etc to simply the whole process.

After doing loads of research on the subject, i found

1) referring domains / linked domains = ratio 1
2) total backlinks / linked domains = ratio 2

I use other ratios in the spreadsheet, but these two I'm a little unsure on what are acceptable ratio outputs to consider as a backlink potential

Wondering what your thoughts are on the ratio? also are there other metrics you strongly consider? Thank you
#analysis #backlink #metrics
  • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
    My thoughts are ... the only thing that matters for SEO is referring domains. Getting more than one link from the same domain is not likely to help you at all for SEO (unless, maybe, a top 100 site like the WallStreet Journal links to you every week), although if it is a popular website, it might help with traffic to your website.
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    • Profile picture of the author mohitensett
      I agree with you dave, referring domains matters a lot. However, backlinks also COUNT as well. So mix would be great.
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    • Profile picture of the author fastreplies
      Originally Posted by dave_hermansen View Post

      Getting more than one link from the same domain is not likely to help you at all for SEO (unless, maybe, a top 100 site like the WallStreet Journal links to you every week), although if it is a popular website, it might help with traffic to your website.
      What happened to multiple links voting value and power?

      Of course having more than just one link from the same domain is good thing.
      As always, I will bring as example our directory. Every site submitted to directory
      automatically getting 6 pages designated to that site, whereas every page beside
      having link would have description and other related to that domain information
      surely helpful for site's SEO and SERP.

      Granted I'm not sure which part is more beneficial for SEO link or that page's content
      but I know it's working based on what G.is having in it possession related to that site.



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      • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
        Originally Posted by fastreplies View Post

        What happened to multiple links voting value and power?

        Of course having more than just one link from the same domain is good thing.
        As always, I will bring as example our directory. Every site submitted to directory
        automatically getting 6 pages designated to that site, whereas every page beside
        having link would have description and other related to that domain information
        surely helpful for site's SEO and SERP.

        Granted I'm not sure which part is more beneficial for SEO link or that page's content
        but I know it's working based on what G.is having in it possession related to that site.



        fastreplies
        Sorry, but just because you say that your directory gives people 6 backlinks and "therefore" each one of those links helps the site it is linking to, doesn't make it so. Where is your proof that link #1 helped one of the sites move up the rankings "x" amount and link #2 moved it up twice as much, etc.?

        Are you saying that each of those 6 links is as powerful as the next and that your directory is 6 times more powerful for SEO than a directory that links to a site only once? For that matter, do you have definitive proof that any single link from your directory moved a website up the rankings at all?

        That's the problem with this kind of stuff ... how do you prove it?
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        • Profile picture of the author fastreplies
          Originally Posted by dave_hermansen View Post

          Sorry, but just because you say that your directory gives people 6 backlinks and "therefore" each one of those links helps the site it is linking to, doesn't make it so. Where is your proof that link #1 helped one of the sites move up the rankings "x" amount and link #2 moved it up twice as much, etc.?
          Of course it does. I see link as a vote. 1 link, 1 vote, 6 links, 6 votes.

          Ah, the proof. Are you going to deny that crawlers would record everything
          they would find inside of website? Are you saying that bots ignoring 5 of 6 links
          by some design, G's plot to avoid some specific stuff? If this is the case then
          why G. want us to use no-follow if it can control things?

          Proof... G is indexing all 6 backlinks and that is not under any doubts.
          Now, can you proof it doesn't?

          Originally Posted by dave_hermansen View Post

          Are you saying that each of those 6 links is as powerful as the next and that your directory is 6 times more powerful for SEO than a directory that links to a site only once?
          No one but Algo knows how powerful these links are including you and myself.
          All we can do is to hope and wish they will effect Algo to make favorable decision
          As to 1 compare to 6. Well, is 6 horses are more powerful than 1?

          Originally Posted by dave_hermansen View Post

          For that matter, do you have definitive proof that any single link from your directory moved a website up the rankings at all?

          That's the problem with this kind of stuff ... how do you prove it?
          Well, I don't have to because there are things that need no proof based on a single
          fact that you can't prove it otherwise.

          And let's not forget that SEO doesn't based on science but just another theory
          which even Google have no idea how to deal with it and that is why it constantly
          changing and involving by trying to find the best recipe how to deal with issues.



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          • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
            Originally Posted by fastreplies View Post

            All we can do is to hope and wish they will effect Algo to make favorable decision ...

            fastreplies
            That's all you need to know as to how reliable the opinion is, folks. You're just guessing (and hoping and wishing).

            Your theory is akin to running an election and letting people vote as many times as they want. Pretty sure algorithms are smarter than that, otherwise, they would count sitewide links as a link from every page - something they corrected a decade ago. Why would they make that correction? Because they did not want multiple links from the same site affecting the rankings. WAY too easy to manipulate!
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            • Profile picture of the author fastreplies
              Originally Posted by dave_hermansen View Post

              That's all you need to know as to how reliable the opinion is, folks. You're just guessing (and hoping and wishing).
              As I've said "SEO doesn't based on science but just another theory"
              and that is why we're entitled to nothing more than to our opinions
              at least you're the one who have created Algo and know exactly what
              it's going on inside of it at any given moment otherwise, you're guessing.

              Originally Posted by dave_hermansen View Post

              Your theory is akin to running an election and letting people vote as many times as they want.
              No, not in this case. It's more like 6 guys sitting in the bar drinking beer
              and taking voted which brand of beer is tasting better.

              Originally Posted by dave_hermansen View Post

              Pretty sure algorithms are smarter than that...
              Of course they are and specially when it comes to SERP. Google made
              Algos smart enough to select SERP based on predictions what people
              might want to find virtually ignoring backlinks and contest all together.

              Mark my word, shortly we'll learn that G. isn't using "old stye outdated
              200 signals" to run searches results, which would be successfully
              replaced by super intelligent Algos, which means - Good Bye SEO



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              • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
                Originally Posted by fastreplies View Post

                No, not in this case. It's more like 6 guys sitting in the bar drinking beer
                and taking voted which brand of beer is tasting better.
                Yep, it is EXACTLY like that ... the decision they made is never heard by anyone outside that bar.


                Originally Posted by fastreplies View Post

                Mark my word, shortly we'll learn that G. isn't using "old stye outdated
                200 signals" to run searches results, which would be successfully
                replaced by super intelligent Algos, which means - Good Bye SEO
                Which means that the number of backlinks is meaningless. And hardly does that mean the end of SEO ... what it means is that you would need to be a whole lot better at creating pages that search engines will like and not manipulating results with things like backlinks.
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                • Profile picture of the author fastreplies
                  Originally Posted by dave_hermansen View Post

                  Yep, it is EXACTLY like that ... the decision they made is never heard by anyone outside that bar.
                  Not if they are not using FB, twitter, Instagram etc. to share it with the whole world
                  but they are and if you need any proof, then just read posts made by our friends from
                  Asian Countries.

                  Originally Posted by dave_hermansen View Post

                  Which means that the number of backlinks is meaningless.
                  Finally you've discovered that.
                  LOL, I'm talking about that for the last 5 years

                  Originally Posted by dave_hermansen View Post

                  And hardly does that mean the end of SEO ...
                  Again, ask our friends from Asian Countries if SEO is even possible
                  without backlinks and see what will happen, but be careful and watch
                  for flying in your direction stones.

                  Originally Posted by dave_hermansen View Post

                  what it means is that you would need to be a whole lot better at creating pages that search engines will like and not manipulating results with things like backlinks.
                  I couldn't say that any better than you have.
                  Thanks you for posting that eye opening conclusion which wanna be
                  SEO of today should be given exceptional attention because one day
                  there won't be Search Engine Optimization but something more related
                  to Algo Optimization Language or AOL. (AOL... LOL, easy to remember).



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                  • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
                    fastreplies - So, you've been arguing that every link from a website is important, not just linking domains, while at the same time maintaining that backlinks are not important at all. Pick a side!

                    I would have thought that your one and only post in this thread should have been "Neither the number of inking domains or total number of backlinks is important."

                    And, of course, you DO realize that Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. have nothing to do with SEO, right?
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                    • Profile picture of the author fastreplies
                      Originally Posted by dave_hermansen View Post

                      fastreplies - So, you've been arguing that every link from a website is important, not just linking domains, while at the same time maintaining that backlinks are not important at all. Pick a side!
                      On my... what am I going to do now? you got me... nah, not really son...

                      Let get it straight. You're arguing, not me. If you are trying to teach some folks
                      about backlinks, then at least make sure you're providing correct information.

                      All, I'm doing is trying to paint bigger picture so folks would get better idea about
                      backlinks theories whereas if backlinks, as you are trying to convey, are so important,
                      then they all should be important and not just some chosen links based your own theory.

                      Originally Posted by dave_hermansen View Post

                      I would have thought that your one and only post in this thread should have been "Neither the number of inking domains or total number of backlinks is important."
                      Read my answer above.


                      Originally Posted by dave_hermansen View Post

                      And, of course, you DO realize that Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. have nothing to do with SEO, right?
                      What da **** is that suppose to mean? Are you trying to be cute?



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  • Profile picture of the author Jamell
    I am not sure about my those metrics but I can tell you this .

    1 List your site in reputable directories

    2 Build relationships

    3 Guest blogging

    4 Start a blog

    5 Contact similar sites to yours with good content and ask for a backlink but make sure you offer a benefit to the site owner
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  • Profile picture of the author Jacey Tome
    1. Link Distribution Ratio
    2. % of Exact Match Anchor Text
    3. Total Number of C-class IPs
    4. Total Unique Linking Domains
    5. Citation Flow
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  • Profile picture of the author saifsakil
    Any web design project must have the analysis tools that allow monitoring (week by week, month by month) the evolution of visits, the average time they spend on our website, the keywords that have brought us traffic, the channels that have provided us with that traffic, etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
    "... at least make sure you're providing correct information"??? That would be pretty tough to do since, as you admit, they are all just theories and hypotheses. An oxymoron by definition.
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  • Profile picture of the author semreseller
    Here is the process of Checking Backlinks
    Step 1: Navigate to Link Explorer.
    Step 2: Enter your competitor's URL.
    Step 3: Navigate to the "Inbound Links" tab.
    Step 4: Export backlink data into.
    Step 5: Compile backlink.
    Step 6: Sort all backlinks by Page Authority.
    Step 7: Review all linking sites for opportunities.
    You can also take the help of Sem to create a reliable backlinks for your website.
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