What a link is worthBacklink value and traffic report for alternative.me
In short: A new followed link from alternative.me is worth about $242 to rankings by BV 2.9 (level B, Site Strength 65 of 100); BV is an estimate, not a price anyone charges. It gets about 669.1K visits a month, 30% from organic search, down 5.3% since Jul 2026. No link placed on it has been audited.
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Backlink value · what one new followed link from alternative.me is worth to rankings
BV$242per link · level B · strength 65reading confidenceLow, 16 out of 100
Reading confidence 16 / 100
1 of 1 page read had text · 7 links to other sites seen · posts from Aug 2018
How much of alternative.me we read, and how sure our model was about the kind of link it gives. Never higher than what we read. The full reading
Priced from our reading of the site. No reliable sample of checked links yet: its link type comes from the articles mxverify read on the site.
$121 unrelated ×0.5$302 same topic ×1.25
- Direct52%
- Organic search30%
- Referrals8.3%
- Social6.4%
- Email2.6%
- Other channels0.8%
Links to this site
Links placed here
No link placed on alternative.me has been audited yet. An audit on bklink.uk checks each one — still there, followed or not, where it sits — and marks this report audited.
How it links out
Followed 100%
Domain and hosting
- Domain registered
- 09 July 2008
- Registration expires
- 09 July 2027
- Content category
- technology
- Server address
- 54.39.131.114
- Hosting network
- OVH
Tech stack
Page speed
Chrome users, 28 days to 3 Nov 2026: LCP 2.0 s · INP 90 ms · CLS 0.02 — passes Core Web Vitals.
Devices: 57% phone · 42% desktop · 1% tablet — share of Chrome page loads, same 28 days.
How to use this report
- Price check. BV puts one new followed link from alternative.me at $242 (level B), priced on a blend of link types (A 10% · B 73% · C 6% · D 11%): $121 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $302 to a same-topic site (×1.25). A followed editorial link (level A) would be worth up to $507 before relevance. A quote far above $317 for a level B link pays for what BV does not measure.
- Qualification and risk. Its Site Strength is 65 / 100; the link it usually gives is mostly level B — may be discounted (a guest, sponsored or listed link). In the 1 article we read, 0% of the links to other sites are nofollow, sponsored or ugc.
- Traffic reality check. Set any traffic claim beside the Sept 2026 estimate: 669.1K monthly visits, 30% from organic search (202.6K). Visits fell 5.3% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. Its top keyword by Visits (est.) is “fear and greed index”, about 26.4K a month; the ad value beside it is the whole market's.
Quick answers about alternative.me
What is a link from alternative.me worth?
BV, mxverify's backlink value, is an estimate of what one new followed link from a site is worth to rankings: by BV 2.9, a new followed link from alternative.me is worth about $242 (level B). Relevance moves it: $121 to an unrelated site, $302 to a same-topic site.
In short: a link from alternative.me is worth about $242 to rankings, up to $302 on the same topic.
Source: mxverify BV 2.9 methodology
Is a link from alternative.me worth placing?
That depends on the kind of link: by BV 2.9, a link from alternative.me is worth $507 as an editorial citation (level A), $254 as a guest, sponsored or listed link (level B), $51 as a press-release, syndicated, profile or forum link (level C), $25 as a network link (level D), before relevance. A price far above $317 for a level B link pays for something BV does not measure, such as the site's own readers.
Source: mxverify BV 2.9 methodology
How does alternative.me's BV compare with other sites?
At about $242 a link, alternative.me is in the “$100 to $249” value band, with 339 of the 4,378 sites valued on mxverify. 208 sites are in a higher band.
In short: 208 of the 4,378 valued sites sit in a higher value band than alternative.me.
Source: mxverify's own directory, counted at the last daily update
How much traffic does alternative.me get?
alternative.me gets about 669.1K visits a month (Sept 2026), by a modelled estimate of all its visitors, not analytics measured on the site. 30% of them (202.6K) come from organic search. Visits fell 5.3% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026.
In short: alternative.me draws about 669.1K visits a month, down 5.3% since Jul 2026.
Does alternative.me pass Core Web Vitals?
Yes: real Chrome users see alternative.me's largest content load in 2.0 s (LCP), and every vital reported for it is at Google's good level. The figures are from the Chrome UX Report (CC BY 4.0), the 75th percentile of real visits. Core Web Vitals describe how a page feels to its visitors; BV does not use them.
In short: alternative.me passes Core Web Vitals on real-user data.
Source: Chrome UX Report, 28 days to 3 Nov 2026; web.dev: Web Vitals
Does alternative.me link out with nofollow?
In the 1 article we read, alternative.me made 7 links to other sites, and 0% of them were nofollow, sponsored or ugc; the other 100% were followed. BV prices a nofollow link at level C (×0.1), whatever the site is otherwise worth.
Source: mxverify's reading of 1 article, 6 Nov 2026; Google Search Central: qualify your outbound links
How old is alternative.me?
The domain alternative.me was registered in 2008, 18 years ago.
Source: the public registration record; RFC 9083: RDAP JSON responses
Has alternative.me been audited?
No link placed on alternative.me has been audited yet, so this report shows no rates for how its links behave. Its backlink value comes from site-level figures (its authority rating, traffic and our reading of its articles), not from audited placements.
In short: alternative.me's report is valued, not audited.
How BV is worked out
A followed editorial link from alternative.me would be worth up to $507 under BV 2.9, before relevance: its Site Strength is 65 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level B, worth about $242 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $121 and $302.
- Site Strength
- 65
- Worth up to
- $507
- Usual link type
- Mostly level B — may be discounted · A 10%, B 73%, C 6%, D 11% → ×0.48
- Relevance to your site
- ×1
- BV score
- $242 per link
- Domain registered
- 9 July 2008
A link from alternative.me, by link type
A link from alternative.me at each level. What each level means.
| Level | Factor | Value |
|---|---|---|
| A — Counted | ×1 | $507 |
| B — May be discounted | ×0.5 | $254 |
| C — Usually neutralised | ×0.1 | $51 |
| D — Network | ×0.05 | $25 |
How alternative.me links out: the full reading
Read by mxverify on 6 November 2026: the homepage and 1 article (1 linked from its homepage). This is our own reading of the site, not a vendor's figure, and it is what places a new link on the A–D scale until links placed here are audited.
Thin sample
Articles read
| Article | Published | Words | Links out | Followed | Says |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Best Elastic No Tie Shoelaces - Our Picks, Alternatives & Reviews - Alternative.me | Aug 2018 | 2,589 | 7 | 7 | — |
Jev, the model that judges every link in a bklink audit, reads these pages as a site whose links are mostly level A — A 77%, B 17%, C 6.0%, D 0%. Put together with what kind of site it is, how established it is, whether it sells placements and how it links out, a new link here is priced as A 10%, B 73%, C 6.3%, D 11%.
Traffic in detail
Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, as of 6 November 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself.
| Keyword | Searches / mo | CPC | Ad value / mo | Visits (est.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fear and greed index | 114.7K† | $1.98† | $227K† | 26.4K |
| fear and greed index crypto | 10.8K† | $3.24† | $35K† | 6,780 |
| fear greed index | 23.9K† | $2.24† | $53.5K† | 4,560 |
| crypto fear and greed index | 11.3K† | $3.05† | $34.3K† | 4,440 |
| bugmenot | 201K | $0.33 | $66.3K | 2,280 |
AI assistants
AI assistants sent about 5,018 visits in Sept 2026 — 0.8% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month:
Server and network
Its domain was registered in 2008.
mxverify looked up alternative.me's address: no other publication in the directory runs on 54.39.131.114. 2 publications are on the same hosting network (OVH, AS16276) — a cloud platform hosting millions of unrelated sites, so that is no sign of a connection.
OVH is a cloud platform hosting millions of unrelated sites, so sharing it says nothing about who runs a site. The count is shown; the sites are not listed.
Where each figure comes from
| Figure | Source | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Backlink value | BV 2.9 | Site Strength × link type; link type from our reading of the site |
| Links placed here | bklink audits | None audited yet |
| How it links out | Read by mxverify | 7 links to other sites in 1 article, published Aug 2018; read 6 Nov 2026 Thin sample |
| Traffic | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 6 Nov 2026 |
| Authority | Ahrefs Domain Rating | Half of Site Strength, shown in steps of 5, as of 6 Nov 2026; the rating itself is not shown |
| Server and network | mxverify's DNS and ASN lookup | 54.39.131.114 · OVH |
| Domain age | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 9 Jul 2008 |
Limitations: what this report does not show
- No link on this publication has been audited yet, so nothing here describes how its links behave.
- alternative.me gives more than one kind of link (A 10% · B 73% · C 6% · D 11%), so BV prices a blend of them: an editorial link there would be worth $507 and a guest or sponsored one $254, before relevance.
- The figures for how alternative.me links out rest on 1 article, too few to describe the whole site.