Moz.com Lost it's Mind With MozRank/MozTrust/DA?

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First let me say never focus on stats from just 1 platform, it can lead to costly mistakes.

STATS:

Majestic Trust Flow: 1
Majestic Citation Flow: 8
Moz Domain Authority: 18
Domain MozRank: 3.65
Domain MozTrust: 3.84

If you would rely on Moz.com you could say this is probably a somewhat weak PR3 domain right?

Now let's look at the back links:

2 PR5 links (nofollow) from university
1 PR4 link (nofollow)
14 PR2 links (mostly from same domains)

Normally I would ignore such domain right away but I was just curious why the MozRank/MozTrust levels were so high while Majestic gave it a TrustFlow of only 1.

Seems like Moz.com gives nofollow links the same weight as dofollow links.

Just curious, cause it has 2 PR5 links from a university, would you pick it up for registration fee?
#search engine optimization #lost #mind #mozcom #mozrank or moztrust or da
  • I should send you lists that get flushed to my recycle bin Those stats do seem a bit discombobulated . But nothing is perfect so we just have to roll with it.

    I personally concentrate my main filtering based on Moz PageAuth and Majestic TrustFlow, and from your stats above that looks very weak.
  • You have to understand how trustflow works. Its entirely possible (thought not all that common) because trustfow is determined by the number of hops from their main starter websites. this most affects PR4/PR3 and below sites. can you get a link from a PR4 and a bunch of Pr2 and Pr3 pages that are far down the food chain from the sites Majestic uses for trustflow? I will admit 1 is low but I would not be shocked if it was off.

    I'm betting there are other links you are not seeing plus big point -

    You are still going off of the PR metrics that have not been updated for nearly a year. its entirely possible some of the PR zeros and N/as you are ignoring are really no longer that. However if those links are accurate, yeah, I'd definitely pass.
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      You mean that trust flow is based on how far away the inner page (the one where the link is) is from the homepage? Like 2, 3 or 4 levels deep?

      It's more likely that the PR 0 / n/a links are actually burried deeper into the site then that they've become stronger, otherwise TF would probably have been higher instead of at an all time low.

      There's one thing I've missed btw which kind of screws up this whole example, I checked the TF of the non www. version so this whole example is kind of screwed from the start.

      In earlier days when I checked domains from my broker the TF often seems to be pretty parallel with the strength of a domain. However when I compare it based on "deleted" domains from expireddomains.net the TrustFlow actually means nothing when it's in the <20 range.

      Why, yesterday I used that Inspyder tool and I found a whole bunch of domains that only had like 1 PR1 link and a handful or dozen of PR0 links, according to multiple back link checking tools and a TF in the range of 12-18.

      In that case it could be that the PR0's aren't PR0's anymore of course but it becomes a lot of guess work.

      I'll post a sample soon to show you what I mean, with live url of the deleted domain with it.
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    What? Moz DIY metrics blow?

    I did not know that.

    What's funny is the public PR hasn't been updated, yet all that DIY moz junk is based on PR & people still harp on how the moz metrics are better than looking at PR.

    One word..., ShamWow.
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