Comments on: MajesticSEO Analysis of Russell Group University Repositories

By: Essential Marketer (@SEOBirmingham)

Essential Marketer (@SEOBirmingham) — Fri, 24 May 2013 23:09:30 +0000

It would be very useful, to benchmark results and into analyse new link flow metrics that were added from that point.
This would give another dimension on the outcome and give a little bit more waiting to what link metrics added value?

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By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 10:06:24 +0000

thanks

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Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:54:05 +0000

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By: Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus)

Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus) — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:19:22 +0000

Hi Dorothea

I’m working with a small number of repository managers who will be in a position to provide such contextual information. I prefer working in an open fashion, providing evidence as the work progresses, so that flaws in the methodology can be spotted at an early stage.

By: dsalo

dsalo — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:06:37 +0000

I don’t really know how to intepret these numbers! Are they correlated with amount of content, amount of full-text (or other non-metadata-only) content, breadth or depth of subject matter, what?

By: Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus)

Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus) — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:54:12 +0000

Thanks for the comment. I'm now following you on Twitter (I'm @briankelly). Funnily enough initially I did include the Trust Flow and Citation Flow values on the table. However since the FAQ didn't really provide a great explanation of what these terms mean and how they are obtained, I decided to omit this information so that the post was focussed on the figures which are easily understood, On further reflection I wonder if significant number of links to the repositories are from link farms which are hosted on Blogspot or Wordpress. I guess it would be useful to be able to filter out links which are felt to be from untrustworthy sources. Is that possible?

By: Dixon Jones

Dixon Jones — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:37:41 +0000

Hi Brian, I am a director here at MajesticSEO. Thanks for using our data for this research. If we can help with a follow up then I would be very happy to help. Track me down @Dixon_Jones on Twitter. In particular, Looking at the comparative Trust Flow metrics would be an interesting comparison, since trust is a weighted metrics that passes through multiple link iterations, meaning that large numbers of low quality links are less influential on the resulting 0-100 scores. By contrast, Citation Flow is a “Link heavy” metric… so urls or sites with high trust and low citation flow MIGHT indicate narrow centres of excellence.