(Entry was posted by Mark Gilvey on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, Saturday, September 7, 2013).

What is the difference between Citation Flow and a Back link?

What is the difference between Citation Flow and a Back link? Is a back link a citation?

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Tony McCreath: I think citation is a mention and does not necesarlily mean a link.
Ranu Jain: Citation Flow is a Flow Metric that ;predicts how influential a URL might be based on the number of sites linking to it. The more links that the site has, the higher it’s Citation Flow.
David Harry: Citation flow is a Majestic metric. Whereas an actual citation is any mention of an entity. It can be a (href) linked one or a non-link citation.