DA/PA vs TF/CF vs DR/UR - Who does GOOGLE trust the most?

Disregarding the quality of all other features each of these Platforms and their tools have.

Who's metrics in your experience, or do you feel, are given the greatest credibility by google in terms of ROI through better Rankings?

Sorry if my post makes no sense - I am a newbie to SEO.

For analogies sake my question is -
if you were google and rankbrain was your child, as far as metrics were concerned, who would you make the godfather of Rank Juice - Moz, Majestic or Ahrefs.

I feel moz to be the gold standard of link juice. I'm not sure whether this is is because of overall community stats and presence but I really don't know if I could choose who I should go for....

Who would you pick..??

None of them.

I have seen websites with 50+ domain rating with only 1 backlink on Ahrefs, and I have seen lots of websites with high PA/DA that is full of spamlinks.

Personally i like to check all the metrics: DR/UR PA/DA and TF CF. After i get the results I check the backlinks manually to verify the quality.

DA/PA vs TF/CF vs DR/UR - nice.
Sorry to disappoint you but google/bing/duckduckgo or any other search engine don't use that crap.
Those metrics are used for selling links and have nothing to do with real ranking or how the search engines see your website.

None google is smart it avoids all

We have to check backlink quality. If domain has backlink from wikipedia,business.com,huffingtonpost etc and pa/da is 1 or TF/CF is 0 or DR/UR is 0, Its still a beast

In the absence of Google disclosing PR (which they stopped providing after 2013), DA, TF and DR are the best approximate 'snapshot' indicators of how authoritative a page is. They are not garbage metrics, especially when they are towards the highest end of the spectrum (say, above 70). If the RD is also in the high double digits or in the triple digits, this additionally reveals the page has real authority.

NONE!

Those are proprietary metrics invented by third party companies to try to guess the power of a domain/URL. Google uses its own system.

(Seo)MOZ took off when google made its PageRank private and people needed a way to rank their properties

NONE! Google have own ranking factor signals.

Which of these metrics would correspond most closely to real ranking power of the website in your opinion? There will always be website examples that are exceptions. However, overall these could be somewhat usable maybe?

I have also seen websites with high metrics but very little traffic.

Base on my experience and as a newbie in SEO, I prioritize the DA(20+)/DR(50+)/TF(15+) authority then check if the linking domain/referring domain is good(ex.cnn, NYTimes, BBC, etc) then I will consider them as a good spot backlink. Then for ranking SERP value, I consider the DR score and it closely matches my update keyword position.

You may also consider even the DA/DR/TF is low then the backlink of that site is connected to the TOP website, then it's considered a gold mine.

Zatoichi said:

Which of these metrics would correspond most closely to real ranking power of the website in your opinion? There will always be website examples that are exceptions. However, overall these could be somewhat usable maybe?

I have also seen websites with high metrics but very little traffic.

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u could have high metrics but then target shitty keywords that no body actually searches for then u wont have traffic... having high metrics doesnt mean google will rank u for any random keyword they find on ur site...

Google have their own mechanism. They won't reveal so these site give us some numbers and making money out of it. Sometimes it's useful sometimes it won't.

None, Google does not care about any other 3rd party metrics. Why would they when they have their own

Well tbh, your post makes a lot of sense. I am using all these tools but to be honest everyone of these tool have their own pros and cons. But to be very precise, let me share some useful knowledge with you..

I have bought thousands of domains in my life for PBN purposes and according to my knowledge following facts are true:

1) Moz DA and PA is actually a lot closer to Google's liking or disliking algorithm, it's far more superior than the Ahrefs DR for following reasons:

Ahrefs DR actually emphasizes more on amount of backlinks, don't be shocked if you see a domain with thousands of junk nofollow backlinks with high DR. This is how their algorithm works.

But Ahrefs have a very superior backlinks' index. They have more data so I still prefer Ahrefs on any other tool when analyzing a domain.

2) Majestic has a good but smaller index than Moz and Ahrefs. But the TF metric is very beneficial, bcz it shows you that how many trusted(white hat backlinks) a website is receiving.

Majestic has hired some operators who actually manually review a site and give it a Trust flow according to its structure and ability to stop spam backlinks.

It also considers a site's OBL etc. So if a new domain is receiving 10-20 backlinks from very authoritative websites, then it can have a good TF of over 20 even with some 10-20 backlinks or even just one.

3) Use these tools like this, Moz: to search how good a domain can perform in Google(use spam score as well), Ahrefs: To check backlinks manually(since they have superior index), Majestic: To see how many trusted links a website is receiving.

That's it .

I hope this helps.

These metrics are just decided by the websites them selves google Don't take them into consideration. But factors that determines these metrics are what you must take into consideration before bulding a backlink on any website.

I think what the OP meant or should have asked is, which metrics correlate the best with Google rankings.

I would also like to know the same from the SEO experts here.

schttrj said:

I think what the OP meant or should have asked is, which metrics correlate the best with Google rankings.

I would also like to know the same from the SEO experts here.

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It's not the metrics that correlate with the google rankings but .. The Factors that are responsible for determining those metrics.. as there are various factors that help in determining those metrics . Like alexa is determined by how many visitors a website has .. similarly TF is determined by backlinks to the website.

So You should focus more on those factors, means building strategy according to these factors as Google ranking depends on those factors

Google have their own factors for ranking websites. Having relevant and high quality backlinks will always improve your website.

None of this, Because Google have their own strategy.