Citation Flow
In one sentence
Majestic's zero-to-one-hundred measure of link popularity that counts volume and deliberately ignores quality.
Analogy Mental model
How many people someone knows. A large contact list says nothing about whether any of those people would show up when it actually mattered.
In practice What you actually do
Never optimise for Citation Flow on its own. Use it as the denominator in the trust ratio, and treat a widening gap between the two figures as a prompt to audit where your recent links came from before the gap gets wider.
Where people get burned Pitfalls
Chasing volume to lift the citation number is self-defeating. You end up with a profile that looks busy and ranks like it is empty.
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