How Do I Interpret Data From "Competitive Link Finder" Search Results?
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Ok, I'm a beginner here. A few basic questions:
I ran a "competitive link finder" search.
1. What does "Subdomain mR" mean?
2. What does Subdomain mT mean?
3. What do the scores in each column mean? Example 8.7 under Subdomain mR.
4. How do I interpret this?
thanks for your help!
Dan Castro
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I do indeed - sure I'd be delighted to give you a hand. Send me an email at devin@andersonseo.com with the details (where you're based, your website etc..) and we'll see what I can do to help.
Cheers
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Do you hire yourself out? I need someone to look at the reports I've been running cuz I have no idea how to interpret them.
I also need someone to guide me in my offsite SEO efforts. I will do all the work (writing articles, submitting them, blogging, etc). I just need someone to coach me in "best practices."
Are you interested?
Dan
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SEO guy is probs the best way of putting it! Though I've owned / been in charge of a few websites in the past..
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Ok, cool. Thanks.
Are you a webmaster? Or an SEO guy?
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Sure no probs!
A domain is basically a website. A subdomain is a domain which is part of another larger domain.
So for example you've got the domain yahoo.com and subdomain search.yahoo.com. They're websites in themselves but the they're interconnected. MozTrust etc refers to subdomains because it's a more specific answer than referring to domains (which may have multiple subdomains on them)
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Awesome! Thanks Devin!
Can you tell me what the difference is between a domain and a subdomain?
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Hi Dan,
1. mR means MozRank - This is a number between 1-10 which refers to the popularity/power of the links to the site. It is calculated in a similar way to Googles PageRank
2. mT means MozTrust - This is, again, provided as a number between 1-10. It refers to the distance your subdomain is from a trusted domain. For example, how many link 'hops' are you away from a site like About.com (or any other big, trusted brand name). How sure is Google that you are not a spam website? The higher the score, the better.
3. The scores are on a logarithmic scale. Not gonna lie, logarithms confuse the heck outta me, and your best bet is probably googling 'what is a logarithm'
4. The closer the scores are to 10, the better. 8.7 mT or mR, for example would be a highly trusted domain. If you've got sites with scores like that you're probably doing quite well. A score of 1 represents a site with no links or authority or anything, so you can judge in your head the value from there.
Hope that answers your question.
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