Question in regards to Comparing Metrics with MOZ tools

[90miLLA]

Hi all!

After using the "Compare Links Metrics" in the research tools, a few questions popped up. Particularly, in regards to what key metrics to look for when determining if a websites outbound links are trustworthy and may pass Link-juice. Basically, "if my link is put on that website, will search engines trust it"? I've copied an example below and typed a few comments next to particular metrics.  Please share some insight them:

Page Authority: 48

Page MozRank: 4.94 -Is 4.94 considered OK?

Page MozTrust: 4.96 -Is 4.96 considered OK?

Internal Equity-Passing Links: 2,819

External Equity-Passing Links: 2,326 -Lower = better?

Total Equity-Passing Links: 5,145

Total Internal Links: 2,844

Total External Links: 2,383 - Lower = better?

Total Links: 5,227

Followed Linking Root Domains: 88

Total Linking Root Domains: 129

Linking C Blocks: 30

Equity-Passing Links vs
Non-Equity-Passing Links:** I am assuming that the higher the Non-equity passing links VS the Equity passing links is typically better? What would be an idea ratio?**

Internal Links vs
External Links: Lower external = better?

[90miLLA]

That's a great location but it seems like most of the info there is pretty spread out in regards to my question. I was interested in figuring out if the number of external link on a site will influence their own reputation, and how.

For example, if site A has 500 external link, and site B has 1000 - and assuming all other metrics are the same for both sites - which one should I try to pursue as far as getting an external link to my own site (i.e. which has the highest SEO value for me)?

Also, I am assuming that when a site has 500 external links, that is 500 external links going out (not coming in).

[Andy-Halliday]

I was going to try and write about which each one means, but I would just be duplicating this whole section of Moz:

http://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority

Down the right hand side there is a link to each of the sections, with videos and far more information than I could post in the answer box here.

Hope this is useful

Andy