This page will help you with the reports of the LinkResearchTools. You can look up the contents of each package and how to interpret each value.
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Tools
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Video Tutorials
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Quick Backlinks Tool |
Backlink Profiler |
Competitive Landscape Analyzer |
Link Alerts
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Common Back Links Tool |
Link Juice Recovery Tool |
Strongest Subpages Tool |
CEMPER Juice™ Tool |
SERP Research Tool
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Link Juice Thief |
Additional Services
FREE WebinarsYou want to get a deeper look inside the whole Link Research Tools suite? Well, then sit back and watch our uncut live recordings. |
Case StudiesChristoph C. Cemper, founder of the Link Research Tools, shares his know-how in practical examples. |
TrainingYou require specific training in our tools? These tailor-made trainings will fit your needs. |
SEO Metrics
- Link Check
- Link Status
- Basic SEO Stats
- Trust & Power
- Ranking Keywords Metrics (SEMrush)
- Link Velocity and Link Velocity Trends (Superhero/Enterprise only)
- Visibility Indexes
- Link Ratio Metrics
- Domain Registration Details
- Domain Expiry & Registrar Details
- Legacy Link Metrics
- Google Indexation
- Title Rank Metric (Superhero/Enterprise only)
- Link Source Country & City
- Authority Backlinks
- Traffic Indicators
- Authority Metrics
- Advanced Link Counts
- Onpage-Linking Analysis Package
- Dmoz and Wiki Links
- Basic Social Votes (Superhero/Enterprise only)
- Advanced Social Votes (Superhero/Enterprise only)
- Wins (QDC / CKA)
Link Check
| Linktext | The Linktext is the visible, clickable text in a hyperlink. |
| Link Status | Declares the status of a link (e.g.: Follow, NoFollow, canonical, mention…) |
| LinkType | Declares the type of a link (e.g.: text, image, canonical, mention…) |
| LinkPos | Evaluates the link position based on the number of links of the page |
| LinkPosPct | Evaluates the relative link position based on the number of links of the page |
| LinkLoc | Declares the location of a link (e.g.: header, footer, content, comment…) |
| Google Author ID | This metric shows you the percentage of how many found links are linked with Google Author profiles |
Link Status
| FOLLOW | A FOLLOW link is indexed and will influence the target’s ranking |
| NOFOLLOW | A NOFOLLOW link won’t influence the target’s ranking |
| MENTION | Somebody mentioned the URL but hasn’t linked it |
| CANONICAL | The URL has been identified as original source by a site with duplicate content |
| [LinkNotFound] | No link was found on the relevant page |
| n/a | Our crawlers couldn’t find a link because the URL might be a binary file (e.g. PDF, DOC etc.) |
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Our crawlers couldn’t verify the relevant page/URL |
Basic SEO Stats
Basic SEO stats are number of links to page and domain, linking root domains (domain popularity),
Theme of the site, technical site type and the CEMPER Power™ and CEMPER Trust™ metrics. Power
means the strength based on the number and power of links (better than PageRank™) and Trust
indicated the implied Trust of the page in Google according to a system similar to Trust Rank patent.
| BL | Backlinks from page to page |
| BLdom | Backlinks from page to domain |
| DomPop | The number of linking domains to domain. |
| Theme | The theme of a page (e.g. “Computers/Internet”). A page might have more than one theme (e.g. “Newsgroups/Forums, Computers/Internet”). |
| SiteType | The type of a site (e.g. “Blog” or “Social Network”). |
| Power | reports the strength based on the number and power of links (better than PageRank™). |
| Trust | indicates the implied trust of the page in Google according to a system similar to Trust Rank patent. |
| Power * Trust | The one metric you need for judgment on link quality. |
Trust & Power
Power and Trust metrics for domain and top-domain. Select these to compare all trusts & power metrics next to each other.
| Power*Trust dom | determines the quality of a domain according to its strength and trustworthiness |
| Power*Trust topdom | determines the quality of a top domain according to its strength and trustworthiness |
| Power-dom | reports the power of the domain |
| Trust-dom | indicates the implied trust of the domain |
| Power-topdom | reports the power of a top domain |
| Trust-topdom | indicates the implied trust of the top domain |
Ranking Keywords Metrics (SEMrush)
KwDomain reports the number of keywords the whole domain ranks for and KwPage reports the number of keywords a page ranks for, as known by SEMrush. The KwDomain value is logically most often higher than the KwPage value. Both are indicators for the ranking power of a page or a domain. The KwDomain metric does NOT require a SEMrush API key while the KwPage, SEMRush Rank, SEMRush Traffic, SEMRush Traffic Price do.
| KwDomain | Reports the number of keywords the domain ranks for. |
| KwPage | Reports the number of keywords the page ranks for. |
| SEMRush Rank | Rating of the page by the number of visitors that come from the first 20 Google search results. |
| SEMRush Traffic | Number of visitors coming from the first 20 Google search results per month. |
| SEMRush Traffic Price | Estimation of the costs of purchasing the same number of visitors. |
Link Velocity and Link Velocity Trends (Superhero/Enterprise only)
LVT, LV4m, LV6m, LV12m, LV24m – new metrics to understand how the link growth of source domains works.
| LVT | a trend indicator of how link growth changed |
| LV4m | reports the average DomPop growth / month in the last 4 months |
| LV6m | reports the average DomPop growth / month in the last 6 months |
| LV12m | reports the average DomPop growth / month in the last 12 months |
| LV24m | reports the average DomPop growth / month in the last 24 months |
Visibility Indexes
seoVisWorld, seoVis and SistIdx report the visibility (number of keyword ranks) for a whole domain. seoVis does this for a country selected in project settings, while seoVisWorld for the whole world. The higher the SISTRIX index is, the more visible the domain is for the keywords SISTRIX checks
| Sistrix Sichtbarkeitsindex | Measure for the “visibility” of a domain in the Google index. It is a weighted average of ranking position and traffic for a certain keyword. |
| SearchMetrics seoVis | Reports the country-wide visibility of a domain (number of ranked keywords), based on the selected country at the project page. |
| SearchMetrics seoVisWorld | Reports the worldwide visibility of a domain (number of ranked keywords) |
Link Ratio Metrics
SWR, SWR-page, SWR-topdom, DLR, DLR-topdom – new metrics to evaluate the sidewide and deep link ratios of the relevant source
| SWR-page | The side wide ratio is the ratio between page links (BL) and the number of linking domains to the page (DomPop-page) |
| SWR | The domain side wide ratio is the ratio between domainwide links (BLdom) and the number of linking domains to the domain (DomPop) |
| SWR-topdom | The top-domain side wide ratio is the ratio between top-domainwide links and the number of linking domains to the top-domain (DomPop-topdom) |
| DLR | The deep link ratio of the domain |
| DLR-topdom | The deep link ratio of the top domain |
Domain Registration Details
The domain registration info is helpful for some SEOs, especially the domain creation date is said to maybe have impact on the trust a domain has. The further in the past the better.
| DomAge | The age of a domain (in years and months). |
| DomCreated | Domain creation month and year. |
| REG | Domain name registrant |
| IP | Hosting IP Address |
Domain Expiry & Registrar details
The domain registration info is helpful for some SEOs, especially the domain expiry date is said to maybe have impact on the trust a domain has. The further in the future the better.
| DED | Domain Expiration Date |
| DNS | Domain nameservers |
| DNR | Domain name registrar |
Legacy Link Metrics
Google PageRank™ and Majestic ACrank are legacy link metrics we don’t recommend to base your decisions on for a variety of reasons.
| ACrank | The Majestic ACrank is a measure of the importance of a page. The more links a page has, the more important it is. This concept is similar to PageRank™. SEOmoz’s Linkscape tool uses the exact same measurement, and calls it Moz Rank. |
| PR | Google PageRank™ |
Google Indexation
| G!idx | The number of pages Google indexed for a domain |
| G!cache | Google page cache date (“1973-01-01″ means UNCACHED, i.e. the domain or page is not in the Google index) |
Title Rank Metric (Superhero/Enterprise only)
The TitleRank™ metric describes how far up a linking page ranks in Google for it’s page title.
If it ranks on a very high page number or does not rank at all, it’s probably penalized.
| TitleRank | Determines the position of the linking page’s title in Google’s search results |
| Title | Extracts the page title of the linking page |
| TitleRank-home | Determines the position of the linking homepage’s title in Google’s search results |
| Title-home | Extracts the page title of the linking homepage |
Link Source Country & City
The Domain Source tells you, in which country and city this domain is hosted. This is increasingly important for local search results.
| CNTRY | Hosting IP Address country code |
| CITY | Hosting IP Address city and region |
Authority Backlinks
Backlinks from universities and governmental agencies are usually more trusted and help your domain in improving it’s trust – and thereby levereage other links.
| DomPopEDU | Number of linking .edu (US academic) domains. |
| DomPopGOV | Number of linking .gov (US government) domains. |
| BLedu | Number of links from .edu (US academic) sites. |
| BLgov | Number of links from .gov (US government) sites. |
Traffic Indicators
Alexa, Compete and SEMrush all provide estimations about the traffic a site receives. Since all of them have different ways to measure and some bias in any way it’s good to have them all. SEMRushRank is a rank similar to Alexa rank that they calculate, while SEMRushPrice and SEMRushTraffic are indicators for the actual dollar value of the traffic based on the rankings a domain has. This is thereby also a quality indicator – the higher the better.
| Alexa | Alexa Traffic Rank |
| CRank | Ranking of a site in its competitive set by measuring the number of Unique Visitors according to compete.com. Lower is better. |
| SEMRushRank | Rating of a page by the number of visitors that come from the first 20 Google search results |
| SEMRushPrice | Estimation of the costs of purchasing the same number of visitors |
| SEMRushTraffic | Number of visitors coming from the first 20 Google search results per month |
Authority Metrics
Our new unique CEMPER Trust™ metrics along side with the old SEOmoz authority indicators. These metrics
for the page and domain indicate the probability of a page or domain having ranking authority in Google.
| Trust | indicates the trustworthiness of the page |
| Trust-dom | indicates the trustworthiness of the domain |
| Trust-topdom | indicates the trustworthiness of the top domain |
| MozAuthPage | SEOmoz page authority |
| MozAuthDom | SEOmoz domain authority |
Advanced Link Counts
Backlink and domain popularity metrics.
| cPop | The number of referring ClassC to domain. |
| IPpop | The number of referring IPs to domain. |
| DomPop-page | Number of linking domains to page |
| IPpop-page | Number of referring IPs to page |
| cPop-page | Number of referring ClassC to page |
| DomPop-topdom | Number of linking domains to topdomain |
| IPpop-topdom | Number of referring IPs to topdomain |
| cPop-topdom | Number of referring ClassC to topdomain |
Onpage-Linking Analysis Package
The parameters of this package look at the links of a page and tell you how many links of each kind a page has.
| MetaRobots | Analyzes a site’s robots-meta-tag and tells you, if a page uses one or a combination of the values “index”, “noindex”, “follow”, “nofollow”, “archive” or “noarchive”. |
| IntL | Total number of internal links (links to the same domain) on a given page (both FOLLOW as well as NOFOLLOW-links). |
| ExtL | Total number of external links on a given page (both FOLLOW as well as NOFOLLOW-links). |
| IntLNF | Total number of internal links (links to the same domain) on a given page with rel=”nofollow”. |
| ExtLNF | Total number of external links on a given page with rel=”nofollow”. |
Dmoz and Wiki links
The metrics of this package look at the number of links coming from Open Directory(DMOZ) and Wikipedia.
| Dmoz!BLdom | Total number of links coming from Open Directory (www.dmoz.org) |
| Wiki-PT!BLdom | Total number of links coming from Portuguese Wikipedia (pt.wikipedia.org) |
| Wiki-ZH!BLdom | Total number of links coming from Dutch Wikipedia (zh.wikipedia.org) |
| Wiki-PL!BLdom | Total number of links coming from Polish Wikipedia (pl.wikipedia.org) |
| Wiki-IT!BLdom | Total number of links coming from Italian Wikipedia (it.wikipedia.org) |
| Wiki-FR!BLdom | Total number of links coming from French Wikipedia (fr.wikipedia.org) |
| Wiki-EN!BLdom | Total number of links coming from English Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org) |
| Wiki-DE!BLdom | Total number of links coming from German Wikipedia (de.wikipedia.org) |
| Wiki-ES!BLdom | Total number of links coming from Spanish Wikipedia (es.wikipedia.org) |
| Wiki-JA!BLdom | Total number of links coming from Japanese Wikipedia (ja.wikipedia.org) |
| Wiki-RU!BLdom | Total number of links coming from Russian Wikipedia (ru.wikipedia.org) |
Basic Social Votes (Superhero/Enterprise only)
Social Votes are an extension to the classic votes – which are links. This package includes the number of Retweets, Facebook Votes (Likes + Shares) and Google +1 for a page.
| FB!Votes | The number of times a URL has been shared, liked or commented on Facebook and websites with Facebook-buttons. (Therefore a combination of the metrics FB!Likes, FB!Shares and FB!Comments.) The difference between liking and sharing a page is that when you like a page, a hidden Facebook Page is created that allows the webmaster to send status updates to their “followers” news feeds, whereas liking means that only a link to a page is created on a user’s Facebook Profile. |
| RTs | The number of Tweets and Retweets including a link to a given URL. |
| G+1 | The number of times a URL has been shared or +1 on Google+ and websites with Google-buttons. |
Advanced Social Votes (Superhero/Enterprise only)
Social Votes are an extension to the classic votes – which are links. This package includes the number of Facebook Likes, Facebook Shares and Facebook Comments for a page. Pinterest counts the number of shared a domain has in Pinterest.
| FB!Likes | The number of times a URL has been shared on Facebook and websites with Facebook-buttons. (The difference to FB!Shares is explained in the FB!Votes explanation.) |
| FB!Shares | The number of times a URL has been shared on Facebook and websites with Facebook-buttons. (The difference to FB!Likes is explained in the FB!Votes explanation.) |
| FB!Comments | The number of times a URL has been commented on Facebook. |
| The number of up votes minus the number of down votes for a URL on reddit.com. | |
| StumbleUpon | The number of views for a given URL on StumbleUpon. |
| The number of times a domain has been pinned on Pinterest. |
Wins (Quick Domain Compare Tool and Competitive Keyword Analyzer)
| Wins | The number of wins is a specifically developed metric for the Quick Domain Compare tool and Competitive Keyword Analyzer which gives information about the overall score of a domain. It’s mainly about all numeric values and counting all top values from each as count of wins from a bunch of metrics such as the CEMPER Power™, PageRank™, the number of backlinks, the Alexa Rank and many more. |
