DomDetailer Majestic TF is Majestic’s Trust Flow score for the result URL, pulled in through DomDetailer. It estimates how trustworthy a link profile looks by measuring proximity to a set of trusted seed sites — but it is a third-party metric, not a Google signal, and a value of 0 can simply mean the data was missing.
| Factor ID | RG-BLK-008 |
|---|---|
| Family | Backlinks & authority |
| Measurement | Provider-supplied authority score |
| Measured zone | Off-page URL/domain data |
What it measures
DomDetailer Majestic TF reports Majestic Trust Flow, a proprietary score derived from the link graph and a page’s proximity to trusted seed sites. Where Citation Flow counts link quantity, Trust Flow weighs quality: a URL that sits few hops away from highly trusted sources scores higher than one linked mostly from low-trust pages. It is a proxy for how credible a URL’s backlink profile appears, expressed on Majestic’s own scale rather than any Google-internal measure.
How RankGear measures it
RankGear reads the dd_majesticTF value supplied by DomDetailer for the exact result URL. It performs no recalculation of its own — the number is taken as provided. When no data is returned for the URL, the factor records 0.
| Value | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Higher score | The URL sits closer to trusted seed sites in Majestic’s link graph — a stronger apparent trust profile. |
| Lower score | Fewer or weaker trusted links reach the URL, per Majestic’s index. |
| 0 | Either a genuinely minimal trust profile or, just as likely, missing provider data. Read a zero with caution. |
How to optimize it
Earn relevant, editorial links from credible sites in your topic area — the kind of coverage that naturally places a URL nearer trusted sources in the link graph. Remove or disavow harmful links only when a careful risk assessment justifies it; reflexive disavowing can do more harm than good. Treat this score as one observation of an off-page trust profile, not a dial to turn: it moves as a by-product of real link-earning, not through direct optimization.
Important considerations
- Trust Flow is a third-party metric from Majestic, not a Google score — it approximates trust, it does not report it.
- Provider methodology and periodic index updates shift the number independently of anything on your site.
- A value of 0 may mean missing data rather than a true absence of trust; do not treat it as a definitive low.
- Do not optimize a single proprietary score in isolation — read it alongside other backlink and authority signals.
- This factor correlates with position within a measured result set; it is a prioritization signal, not a cause of ranking, and no score guarantees a rank.
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