Majestic

Fresh Index now includes enhanced link-level analysis which is able to detect duplicate backlinks from individual domains. This gives you:

• New counts of notable and distinct links
• A link level indicator of the outcome of duplicate analysis

For more information please view our blogpost "Duplicate Link Detection".

The After Noise Reduction count represents the next stage in the long awaited backlink fidelity project. Soon, non-notable duplicate links will be removed from the Majestic Fresh Index. This reduces the amount of pre-processing required to extract maximum utility from Majestic data.

Removal of this data will be performed gradually.

Once we start to remove links, the External Inbound Link count will become closer to the After Noise Reduction total. Once these numbers are close enough to make the new number redundant, the new total will be removed.

Noise-reduction will take place in the Fresh Index only. Eventually, with the noisiest links deleted, we will be able to improve processing times, widen the index to include more Referring Domains, with deliberately lower numbers of backlinks per domain.

Historic Index will continue to archive all links that we find, and its backlink counts are not affected.

Find out more : Counting Backlinks, and our 2021 Link Index Strategy [01/2021], Backlink Index Comparison Fatigue [05/2021], Backlink Fidelity vs Backlink Volatility [09/2020]