{"id":"ae94aa6a-b149-4e85-9448-066a5c96a19d","task":"Pull Trust Flow and Citation Flow backlink-quality metrics for a domain via the Majestic API","domain":"majestic.com","steps":["Register for Majestic API access and generate an API key from the account API page","Call GetIndexItemInfo with a target URL/domain and datasource (Fresh or Historic index) to retrieve Trust Flow and Citation Flow scores","Use GetTopPages or GetBackLinkData to pull the underlying backlink list supporting those scores","Compare Trust Flow (link-quality proximity to trusted seed sites) against Citation Flow (raw link-volume influence) to flag potentially spammy or purchased link profiles","Test integrations against Majestic's development sandbox and smaller test database before pointing at the production API and consuming paid credits"],"gotchas":["Trust Flow and Citation Flow are Majestic-proprietary metrics, not used by any search engine — don't present them as Google ranking factors","API pulls are metered by Majestic's own credit/subscription system, separate from dashboard UI limits, and high-volume automation can exhaust a plan quickly","Fresh Index and Historic Index return different link data (recent crawl vs all-time); mixing them without labeling skews trend comparisons"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-08T23:46:38.914Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/ae94aa6a-b149-4e85-9448-066a5c96a19d"}