DomDetailer Moz Rank is a legacy Moz link-popularity score for a result URL, passed through to RankGear from the DomDetailer provider. It is a third-party authority estimate, not a live Google signal, and a value of 0 usually means the provider returned no data for that URL.
| Factor ID | RG-BLK-012 |
|---|---|
| Family | Backlinks & authority |
| Measurement | Provider-supplied authority score |
| Measured zone | Off-page URL data |
What it measures
This factor reports a legacy Moz link-popularity score supplied by DomDetailer for the result URL. Moz Rank is a proprietary estimate of a page’s link authority, derived from the quantity and quality of links pointing to it. RankGear does not calculate the score itself; it surfaces the value DomDetailer provides so you can see it alongside the other backlink and authority signals for each result.
How RankGear measures it
RankGear reads the dd_mozRank value returned by DomDetailer for the exact result URL. If the URL is missing, or DomDetailer supplies no value for that field, the factor resolves to 0.
How to read the score
| Value | Meaning |
|---|---|
| > 0 | DomDetailer returned a Moz link-popularity score for the exact result URL. |
| 0 | No score was available — the URL or the dd_mozRank field was missing. This may be a genuine absence of authority data or an integration gap. |
How to optimize it
Treat this as an observation about a URL’s link profile, not a target to chase. Because the number is a proprietary provider score, optimizing for it directly is the wrong goal. Focus instead on earning trustworthy, relevant editorial links and building genuinely useful resources; a stronger, cleaner link profile is what a link-popularity estimate is meant to reflect in the first place.
Important considerations
- This is a third-party legacy metric, not a direct Google ranking signal.
- Provider methodology and availability can change, so the score may shift for reasons unrelated to your links.
- A zero may be an integration gap rather than a true absence of link authority — check before drawing conclusions.
- Interpret it alongside modern link-quality evidence rather than in isolation.
- Correlation is not causation: a higher score relates to position within a measured result set, but it does not by itself make a page rank.
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Part of the Factors reference · how RankGear measures · glossary.