<b>When TF and DR disagree, someone's gaming one of them</b>

<b>When TF and DR disagree, someone's gaming one of them</b>

Here's what's really going on when a domain shows Ahrefs DR 70 but Majestic Trust Flow 8.

DR counts raw referring-domain volume and link strength. Trust Flow traces back to a hand-curated seed set of trusted sites. A 60-point spread between them isn't noise — it's a tell that the DR was inflated with a pile of links that have no path back to anything Majestic trusts.

— Topical Trust Flow category mismatch ('Health' on a fintech site) confirms the link source is a PBN running mixed niches.
— Citation Flow far above Trust Flow = link quantity with zero quality lineage.

Spotted across a wave of 'authority' guest-post sellers in outreach inboxes: gorgeous DR, hollow TF. The smart auditors stopped quoting DR alone two years ago. The lazy ones are still buying the number.

Watch this space.