Site report · audited

apnews.com

Name: apnews.com — audited link behaviour
Creator: mxverify

We have audited 1 placed link on apnews.com — too few to state rates. It is served through Cloudflare (CDN), a content delivery network, so its address is shared edge infrastructure and says nothing about who runs it. Its domain was registered in 1991.

Last updated 20 September 2026 · Visit apnews.com

Backlink value

BV$342per link · level B

A new followed link from apnews.com is worth about $342 under BV 2.0 — before relevance to the site it points to, which moves it between $171 and $428.

Link-equity scale: $342 · set by the site's authority band — see how it is calculated
Traffic factor: ×2 · From the site's estimated monthly organic visits (DataForSEO, 10 September 2026).
Usual link type: Level B — may be discounted → ×0.5
This site has not been read yet and no link bought here has been audited, so the default for a link inside an article applies. Checking the site reads it. The table below shows the other levels.
Relevance to your site: ×1 · neutral here; in an audit it runs from ×0.5 (unrelated) to ×1.25 (same topic)
BV score: $342 per link
Domain registered: 12 July 1991 · shown for context; BV does not price on age

A link from apnews.com, by link type

The same site is worth very different amounts depending on the link it gives you. This is what each level is worth here.

Level	What it is	Factor	Value
A — Counted	An editorial citation: the site linked because it is useful to its readers.	×1	$684
B — May be discounted	A guest, sponsored or placed article, or a product or tool directory listing.	×0.5	$342
C — Usually neutralised	A press release or syndicated copy, a forum post, profile, footer or sidebar link — and any nofollow link.	×0.1	$68
D — Network or spam	A site sharing its server with more than 20 other audited sites, a link farm, or machine-generated pages.	×0.05	$34

Traffic

Modelled estimates for Aug 2026 from TabAPI, bought 25 September 2026. They are a model of the site's audience, not figures measured on the site — use them to compare and size, not to audit.

76.4Mmonthly visits−2.8% since Jun 2026

21.4Mfrom organic search28% of visits

#838global rank

#215rank in US

62%bounce rate

2.0pages per visit

2m 22stime on site

Monthly visits

Where visitors come from

Organic search28%
Direct56%
Referrals7.0%
Social3.8%
AI assistants0.6%
Email2.8%
Paid1.6%
Affiliate and other0%

Share of all visits. Organic search is highlighted: it is the traffic BV prices on.

Top countries

United States87%
Canada3.4%
United Kingdom1.1%
Germany0.6%
India0.5%
Other countries7.9%

Top search keywords

Keyword	Searches / mo	CPC	Traffic value
ap news	333.6K	$0.38	$855K
news	9.2M	$0.88	$393.5K
ap	314.7K	$0.41	$296.9K
associated press	160.4K	$0.48	$179.6K
apnews	69.9K	$0.34	$110.3K

Traffic value: what the keyword's visits would cost as search ads, per month.

AI assistants

AI assistants sent about 443.1K visits in Aug 2026 — 0.6% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month:

ChatGPTGeminiClaude

Assistant	Jun 2026	Jul 2026	Aug 2026
ChatGPT	50%	76%	70%
Gemini	7.7%	17%	18%
Claude	1.2%	2.1%	2.8%

Traffic estimates by TabAPI — modelled, not measured. BV uses only the organic-search figure.

How its links behaved

1links audited

1pages we could not read

Fewer than 3 readable audited links — too few for percentages to mean anything.

Latest audit 20 September 2026. Each link counts once, at its most recent audit.

Hosting

Server address: 104.16.22.8 · CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites
Hosting network: Cloudflare (CDN) · AS13335
Server country: US
Domain registered: 12 July 1991
Content category: technology

Server and network

apnews.com is served through Cloudflare (CDN), a content delivery network. Its address is shared edge infrastructure used by unrelated sites, so it cannot show who else runs on the same server.

CDNedge address, not a server

546on the same hosting network

Publications on the same hosting network

The same provider, not the same machine — large providers host thousands of unrelated sites.

Showing 30 of 546.

What this report does not show

Only 1 link has been audited here — a sample too small to describe the publication as a whole.
1 audited page could not be read and is left out of the rates rather than guessed.
A CDN address is shared by unrelated sites, so it says nothing about ownership; no neighbours are listed for it.
A link that is followed is not necessarily a link search engines value; this record does not measure rankings or traffic.

Compiled from bklink.uk audits · maintained by Palash Bagchi · updated 20 September 2026