2. About Majestic SEO
• Find how all the websites on the internet link
to each other
• Explore websites backLinks
• Generates link data
• Used to identify domain history
9. Today’s Objectives
• Familiarize yourself with
1 MJ Basic Tool Functions
• Understand How to
2 Explore Backlinks
• Understand How to
3 Interpret the Link Data
13. Site Explorer
• The Domain Information gives you your Referring
Domains and External Backlinks, so you can quickly
tell if you have a lot of sitewides
14. Site Explorer
• Referring IP Addresses, Class C Subnets, Indexed
URLs, Images, Nofollow Links, Redirects, Frames,
Majestic Million and Deleted Links.
15. Site Explorer
• The Backlink History shows your 2 charts: 1 is your
external backlinks discovery over the past 12
months and the other is your referring domains
discovery over the past 12 months.
16. Site Explorer
• The Top Backlinks area shows the Source URL,
Anchor Text, Target URL, and Last Crawl Date.
17. Site Explorer
• "Top Backlinks" are an attempt to list the most
popular pages linking into the target URL or Domain
18. Site Explorer
• Fresh index gives you information from a rolling 30
day period and is more fresh
20. Site Explorer
• A-Citation-Rank. It is a very simple measure of how
important a particular page is by assigning a number
from 0 (lowest) to 15 (highest) depending on the
number of unique referring external root domains
21. Site Explorer
• The Referring Domains area lists the top domains
that link to your URL
22. Site Explorer
• The Top Pages area lists your top pages: Title, URL,
AC Rank, Date, External Backlinks, and Referring
Domains.
28. Neighbourhood Checker
• When you enter your site or IP, you get two lists:
– one that shows what is cohosted on your IP
– one that shows what is cohosted on your subnet.
30. Clique Hunter
• Allows you to enter up to ten unique root domains and
shows you a representation of the main sites that link to
the sites you’ve entered, therefore identifying your
cliques.
31. Clique Hunter
• The thickness of lines shows that more links come from that
domain to the queried domain.
• The darkness of the box color shows the number of matches
from that domain to the queried domains.
32. Clique Hunter
• You can better filter your results by increasing your minimum
number of matches, number of results shown, and the depth
of analysis
34. Trust and Citation Flow
• Majestic SEO’s new metrics are named Flow Metrics and are
grouped into two categories; trust flow and citation flow.
• The values for citation and trust flow are between 0 and 100
35. Citation Flow
• Citation Flow is a
number of
predicting how
influential a URL
might be based
on how many
sites link to it.
36. Trust Flow
• Trust Flow is a
number
predicting how
trustworthy a
page is based on
how trustworthy
sites tend to link
to trustworthy
neighbors.
37. Trust and Citation Flow
• Google, Yahoo, Facebook among Top sites with almost 100
Trust and Citation Flow metrics
39. Majestic Tips
• Identifying the top pages that link to you and making sure
these links stay up. It’s tricky to watch all your backlinks if
you have a lot of them, but if you’re too overwhelmed, just
identify the top ones and track those.
• Identifying your site’s top pages so that you can continue to
build good links to it.
• Identifying pages of lower importance so that you can work
on their content in hopes of generating more backlinks.