Total Backlinks vs Referring Domains?

JimR said:

Explain how you have 10 links and no domains pointing to it? You mean 0 RD on all 10 of your backlinks?

Not trying to be a dick here just genuinely curious what your'e talking about here

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Anyway peace man, no hates. We are all in this community to share. Cheers bro

JimR said:

I've never looked into it but that seems pretty stupid if Majestic or Ahrefs would treat UTMs as a different URL. Wouldn't that be an easy fix for them?

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There are a lot of other pieces of data that can be put into URL parameters besides https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTM_parameters data. For example, YouTube set a parameter "v" which is equal to some ID. Different IDs result in completely different pages. They also use other URL parameters (such as "t," which corresponds to a time in seconds where the video should start playing) to indicate other data. Some examples:

• youtube.com/watch?v=hEcjgJSqSRU
• youtube.com/watch?t=100&v=hEcjgJSqSRU
• youtube.com/watch?v=hEcjgJSqSRU
• youtube.com/watch?v=cvkBvzpbBPs

The "t" parameter doesn't affect the actual content, but the "v" parameter results in completely different pages being shown.

Since those types of parameters can be set by web developers to do literally anything they want them to, there are a lot of scenarios where ignoring them wouldn't work.

Which is one reason why the canonical tag is used. Presumably Majestic can understand that the "t" value in YouTube URLs isn't a different page because presumably YouTube set canonical tags. A site that doesn't have canonical tags set can't be understood easily by backlink checkers.

MatthewGraham said:

There are a lot of other pieces of data that can be put into URL parameters besides UTM data. For example, YouTube set a parameter "v" which is equal to some ID. Different IDs result in completely different pages. They also use other URL parameters (such as "t," which corresponds to a time in seconds where the video should start playing) to indicate other data. Some examples:

• youtube.com/watch?v=hEcjgJSqSRU
• youtube.com/watch?t=100&v=hEcjgJSqSRU
• youtube.com/watch?v=hEcjgJSqSRU
• youtube.com/watch?v=cvkBvzpbBPs

The "t" parameter doesn't affect the actual content, but the "v" parameter results in completely different pages being shown.

Since those types of parameters can be set by web developers to do literally anything they want them to, there are a lot of scenarios where ignoring them wouldn't work.

Which is one reason why the canonical tag is used. Presumably Majestic can understand that the "t" value in YouTube URLs isn't a different page because presumably YouTube set canonical tags. A site that doesn't have canonical tags set can't be understood easily by backlink checkers.

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Ok I understand. Well TIL

You should focus on QUALITY Referring Domains. Note the word "Quality"