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Trust Flow

Entry #285 / 700 · Chapter 6 · 6.2 How authority flows and how it is measured · Read in Chinese →
In one sentence

Majestic's zero-to-one-hundred estimate of how trustworthy a site's link sources are, based on how close those sources sit to a curated set of trusted seed sites.

Analogy Mental model

A credit score. A high score makes borrowing easier and cheaper; a low one means every request gets scrutinised before anyone says yes.

In practice What you actually do

Pair it with Citation Flow and read the ratio rather than either number alone. High trust with modest citation suggests a small number of excellent links. The reverse suggests volume without judgement. Track the pair together whenever you qualify an outreach prospect.

Where people get burned Pitfalls

Low trust against high citation is the fingerprint of a profile padded with junk. A thousand worthless links never equal ten good ones, however impressive the totals look in a dashboard.

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