Difference between citation flow and trust flow?



Difference between citation flow and trust flow?


Citation Flow refers to the number of backlinks your site got.

Trust flow refers to the number of trustworthy quality backlinks your site got.

Always trust flow is less than citation flow. Except for some highly authoritative sites.

It's also worthwhile to note that quality inbound or backlinks increases citation flow also, but at the same time trust flow increases exponentially.
Flow metrics also flow through internal links.

Citation flow refers to the popularity of a link in a site without considering the quality of these links.

Trust flow metric analyse how trustworthy a site is by measuring its quality. If a link pointing to your website is authoritative and qualitative, then your trust flow will increase.

A good trust flow is harder to get than a citation flow and so the CF will always get higher than the TF.

It is good to know that if TF increase, then CF should also increase. However, if CF increase, there is no proof that TF will increase too.

So if a website with high CF flow points to your website, your CF should get a boost. But if websites with high CF but low TF link to your website, it will negatively impact your TF.

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