Change in Number of Lost Referring Domains
This alert is based on the number of lost referring domains found pointing to your paid level domain. This can be affect your Ahrefs Rank (Your site’s Domain Rank), which exists as a comparison of your site’s rankings to the rankings scale of all other website domains across the world. Changes in the nofollow attribute are generally associated with a negative shift in the link popularity score for a domain, and is often compared with Google’s PageRank scoring.
Increase in Number of Lost Referring Domains
This alert is based on an increase in the number of lost referring domains found pointing to your paid level domain. It is possible that this increase can lead to a decreased Ahrefs Rank for your domain indicates an decrease in overall ranking authority for your website.
Decrease in Number of Lost Referring Domains
This alert is based a decrease in the number of lost referring domains found pointing to your paid level domain. This has the potential to cause the Ahrefs Rank for your domain to increase. Links with a nofollow tag do not pass link authority, and are often used when a website does not want to be directly associated with the linking site.
Let’s hope you have recently improved the relevance to your site, and webmasters are no longer removing their links to your site. It is important to note that Ahrefs can trigger false positives for this alert if there was a recent index update on their end, which would have an impact on the Ahrefs Rank of all sites in their index. If you see a big jump or drop, you should check to see if Ahref updated their index before freaking out!