Good vs. Bad Backlinks - GoFuckYourself.com

hornyasf · 10-13-2021, 12:51 PM

I know not all backlinks are "good", but my question is: would a backlink from a website whose Alexa ranking is, let's say, 5 million even help me in the long run?

I got a guy who says his website gets 15K a week, but his Alexa is less than 6 million. (They own multiple sites so obviously their traffic is probably only referral) - Still, the numbers just don't add up in my head. I swing around 5K to 10K a week on a 4 month old site, but even my alexa is not nearly as bad as theirs.

1) What's going on here?

2) Should Alexa ranking always be considered when link trading?

3) What else should be taken into consideration?

Thanks

MakeMeGrrrrowl · 10-13-2021, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by hornyasf

I know not all backlinks are "good", but my question is: would a backlink from a website whose Alexa ranking is, let's say, 5 million even help me in the long run?

I got a guy who says his website gets 15K a week, but his Alexa is less than 6 million. (They own multiple sites so obviously their traffic is probably only referral) - Still, the numbers just don't add up in my head. I swing around 5K to 10K a week on a 4 month old site, but even my alexa is not nearly as bad as theirs.

1) What's going on here?

2) Should Alexa ranking always be considered when link trading?

3) What else should be taken into consideration?

Thanks

I need clarification for nothing more than my own curiosity. Is that 15k users, sessions, pageviews?

What kind of links are you trading?

Ollay · 10-13-2021, 01:25 PM

It could be that the site is very new or they had a recent boost in traffic and the Alexa rank hasn't caught up yet. You could ask to see their analytics

The things i would look personally at are:

- Domain Authority
- Age of the site
- How relevant is the content
- Position of the backlink
- Number of outbound links already on the page

pornlytics · 10-13-2021, 01:41 PM

Try checking the traffic using similarweb it is way better than alexa.

TurboB · 10-13-2021, 02:45 PM

SimilarWeb, Alexa metrics has nothing to do with SEO.

MobileVRXXX · 10-13-2021, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Smeklinis

SimilarWeb, Alexa metrics has nothing to do with SEO.

That`s spot on

hornyasf · 10-13-2021, 06:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MakeMeGrrrrowl

I need clarification for nothing more than my own curiosity. Is that 15k users, sessions, pageviews?

What kind of links are you trading?

I should have been more descriptive in the post. 15K individual users. Just trading hardlinks.

hornyasf · 10-13-2021, 06:31 PM

Thanks for all the suggestions and tips. Very helpful. Going to check out SimilarWeb when I get the chance.

NatalieK · 10-14-2021, 08:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Smeklinis

SimilarWeb, Alexa metrics has nothing to do with SEO.

Quote:

Originally Posted by hornyasf

Thanks for all the suggestions and tips. Very helpful. Going to check out SimilarWeb when I get the chance.

as smeklinis says, neither have little to do with SEO...

It´s the content and the site itself, it´s your site posts, index, the words used, especially in the head

TurboB · 10-14-2021, 09:31 AM

When I am looking for backlinks I look at these things:

1. Ahrefs UR of refering page + manual review of backlinks to referring page - it should be not a spam and should have backlinks itself (i am talking about dofollows).

2. OBL of referring page - if it has many of it - it will pass very low link juice to your site.

3. I am not looking at traffic of referring page -
https://ahrefs.com/blog/links-with-traffic-study/

Most of link seller are mentioning high traffic to their sites and due to this they rise prices of links to rocket high.
As about traffic - I have couple of sidebar links from homepages of sites with 7-10M monthly traffic. And i have ~60 clicks monthly from that links

People goes to porn sites for masturbation, not for reading content and clicking some links.

10-13-2021, 12:51 PM	#1
hornyasf Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2021 Posts: 185	Good vs. Bad Backlinks I know not all backlinks are "good", but my question is: would a backlink from a website whose Alexa ranking is, let's say, 5 million even help me in the long run? I got a guy who says his website gets 15K a week, but his Alexa is less than 6 million. (They own multiple sites so obviously their traffic is probably only referral) - Still, the numbers just don't add up in my head. I swing around 5K to 10K a week on a 4 month old site, but even my alexa is not nearly as bad as theirs. 1) What's going on here? 2) Should Alexa ranking always be considered when link trading? 3) What else should be taken into consideration? Thanks __________________

10-13-2021, 01:25 PM	#3
Ollay Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 73	It could be that the site is very new or they had a recent boost in traffic and the Alexa rank hasn't caught up yet. You could ask to see their analytics The things i would look personally at are: - Domain Authority - Age of the site - How relevant is the content - Position of the backlink - Number of outbound links already on the page __________________ Highest paying InPage ads: Clickadilla

10-13-2021, 06:31 PM	#8
hornyasf Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2021 Posts: 185	Thanks for all the suggestions and tips. Very helpful. Going to check out SimilarWeb when I get the chance. __________________

10-13-2021, 01:41 PM	#4
pornlytics Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2021 Posts: 29	Try checking the traffic using similarweb it is way better than alexa.

10-13-2021, 02:45 PM	#5
TurboB Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2016 Posts: 1,037	SimilarWeb, Alexa metrics has nothing to do with SEO.

10-14-2021, 09:31 AM	#10
TurboB Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2016 Posts: 1,037	When I am looking for backlinks I look at these things: 1. Ahrefs UR of refering page + manual review of backlinks to referring page - it should be not a spam and should have backlinks itself (i am talking about dofollows). 2. OBL of referring page - if it has many of it - it will pass very low link juice to your site. 3. I am not looking at traffic of referring page - https://ahrefs.com/blog/links-with-traffic-study/ Most of link seller are mentioning high traffic to their sites and due to this they rise prices of links to rocket high. As about traffic - I have couple of sidebar links from homepages of sites with 7-10M monthly traffic. And i have ~60 clicks monthly from that links People goes to porn sites for masturbation, not for reading content and clicking some links.