Need solid, no jargon definitions
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Total Links : 15,967
Ext. Followed Links : 2,078
Linking Root Domains : 177
Followed Linking Root Domains : 125
Linking C-Blocks : 117
Simple question, answers in English please. What are these?
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Linking root domains refer to links from any page on the domain.
I, personally, would be somewhat careful about the foreign sites thing, especially those which may be in different languages. My view on it is that 1) You might begin to seem manipulative with your linking tactics to the SE's and 2) you might unintentionally start to pull off a bit of "international SEO" which could have consequences that, while not necessarily bad, wouldn't be the best for the issues you need to solve at hand.
That's my own view on the subject, though, so certainly don't take it as Gospel.
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Thanks.
One question... For linking root domains, is that referring to links from home pages or from any page on that root domain?
So if I need trust and links and cblock links, I should find the trust seomoz sites and find ways to get inbound links....
If I were going after different c-blocks, an obvious way would be to find different foreign sites (from friendly countries) and get links from them. They are likely to be on different c blocks on a country to country basis. Beats looking it up and keeping track from whois lookups.
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As Craig stated, it's a good idea to read the Beginner's Guide if you haven't already.
However, if you're just trying to make sense of the metrics you put up I'll see if I can help.
Total Links - This is the total number of links coming into a given page or domain (depending on which option you've selected to view.. page based or domain based).
Ext. Followed Links - The number of links pointing to a page which are not from your own domain (ie internal links), and do not have the rel="nofollow" attribute appended to them.
Linking Root Domains - Really it's as simple as it says. It's the number of the individual, unique root domains that are linking to a site. 2 different root domains would be something like site1awesome.com and thisisawebsite.com.
Followed Linking Root Domains - Same principle as the above "Linking Root Domains", but this one takes out all of the links from the domains which have added the rel="nofollow" attribute to those links. It only counts followed links from root domains.
Linking C-Blocks - Sort of difficult to explain. I'd recommend reading the following thread on the Search Engine Watch forums, with particular interest to the first reply. It should hopefully sum up C-Blocks for you.
Hopefully I've helped you understand the metrics better than before reading all of my chicken scratch.
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Hey I recommend you read this http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo there is not much point in explaining these as you won't know what to do with them if you don't already know what they are.
Read this guide it's not that long and you will have a better understanding of what's what.
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