I was looking at how links affect ranking and just wanted to clarify a few things.
The following is from the documentation
On-site links: This is controlled by the cool.1 parameter and is used to indicate the influence provided by the links within the site. This considers the number and text of incoming links to the document from other pages within the same site.
Off-site links: This is controlled by the cool.2 parameter and is used to indicate the influence provided by the links outside the site. This considers the number and text of incoming links to the document from external sites in the index.
How does this work with a meta collection that is made up of various collections - some are different parts of the same site while others are different domains.
For on-site links is this based on the domain rather than the collection the crawled page is within?
So the ranking is calculated across all the meta collection's collections.
ie. a link from www.example.com/page123 that is within collection A to www.example.com/current-page-being-indexed that is within collection B would count? where both collection A and B are both in Meta Collection X.
Or would only links from within collection B count?
I assume that any on-site links from pages that arent in Meta Collection X arent included as Funnelback wouldnt be crawling them.
For off-site links does the 'index' refer to the Meta Collection?
So it effectively extends the above description to also cover other domains that are in sub collections of the meta collection.
ie. a link from www.alternate.com/pagexyz that is within collection A to www.example.com/current-page-being-indexed that is within collection B would count? where both collection A and B are both in Meta Collection X.
Also do subdomains count as off-site links?
Thanks!
