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In your experience, are TF and CF values right indicators of quality of backlinks?

Citation Flow (CF) is determinated by the number of citations to a given URL, or Domain (the strength of one single page, like PA and basically the same as PR).

Trust Flow (TF) is determinated by the number of clicks from a seed set of trusted sites to a given URL, or Domain (a kind of Trust Rank). Because Majestic uses human SEO experts to judge the trust of a site as a basket of hand-picked “high quality” sites, this is actually a very reliable metric.

The CF / TF ratio is near impossible to manipulate with SPAM and doesn’t lie. While spam will increase CF, it is very hard to manipulate TF using low quality links.

With the eradication of Google PageRank, the auxiliary measurements matters a great deal. Measurements like Domain power, Trust stream, and reference stream are turning into the positioning elements in Google.

The locales like Moz and MajesticSEO are incredible at positioning and deciding the power of the destinations or web journals. You can't simply effortlessly trap these measurements, similar to that of Google PageRank.