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Backlink value and traffic report for bizjournals.com

Its domain was registered in 2000.

In short: A new followed link from bizjournals.com is worth about $482 to rankings by BV 2.8 (level B, Site Strength 80 of 100); BV is an estimate, not a price anyone charges. It gets about 7.8M visits a month, 35% from organic search, down 23% since Jul 2026. No link placed on it has been audited.

Last updated 24 October 2026 · Visit bizjournals.com

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Backlink value · what one new followed link from bizjournals.com is worth to rankings

bklinkBV$482per link · level B · strength 80
reading confidenceCouldn't read

Our reader could not open bizjournals.com: it refused us or did not answer in time. Its BV takes the usual link type until a later reading gets in.

Relevance to the linked site moves it

$241 unrelated ×0.5$602 same topic ×1.25

By the kind of link it gives
  • A editorial$963
  • B guest, sponsored$482
  • C neutralised$96
  • D network$48

How BV is worked out · BV 2.8 · not a price anyone charges

7.8Mmonthly visits−23% since Jul 2026
2.8Mfrom organic search35% of visits
#9,419global rank
167,981sites link to it15,972 of them nofollow
2000domain registeredexpires Feb 2028
2.5 spage load for real users (LCP)does not pass Core Web Vitals
Monthly visits
Jul 2026: 10,088,143 visits10.1MJul 2026Aug 2026: 8,730,602 visits8.7MAug 2026Sept 2026: 7,816,277 visits7.8MSept 2026
Where visitors come from
Organic search: 35%Direct: 37%Referrals: 4.5%Social: 4.3%AI assistants: 0.4%Email: 5.5%Paid: 13%Affiliate and other: 0.0%35%organic

Organic search, in green, is the traffic BV prices on.

Top countries
  • United States96%
  • India0.6%
  • Canada0.4%
  • United Kingdom0.2%
  • Korea, Republic of0.2%
  • Other countries2.4%

How it links out

bizjournals.com did not let our reader in on 22 Oct 2026, so its link type is set by fixed rules until a later reading succeeds.

Read 22 Oct 2026 · the full reading

Tech stack

Page speed

Chrome users, 28 days to 19 Oct 2026: LCP 2.5 s · INP 95 ms · CLS 0.14 — does not pass Core Web Vitals. Source: Chrome UX Report (Google), CC BY 4.0.

Each pill opens every site with a report that shares it. Sources: ad load from a web technology index, 22 Oct 2026.

Domain and hosting

Domain registered
24 February 2000
Registration expires
24 February 2028
Record last changed
20 February 2026
Server address
34.237.162.142
Hosting network
Amazon AWS · AS14618 · US

Similar sites

Matched on the subject the two sites share. Never a site on the same server or network.

How to use this report

3 ways to use these figures
  • Price check. BV puts one new followed link from bizjournals.com at $482 (level B): $241 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $602 to a same-topic site (×1.25). A followed editorial link (level A) would be worth up to $963 before relevance. A quote far above $602 for a level B link pays for what BV does not measure. · Backlink value · what this means
  • Qualification and risk. Its Site Strength is 80 / 100; the link it usually gives is level B — may be discounted (a guest, sponsored or listed link). The spam score of its links is 26 (0–100, the linking pages' average), not bizjournals.com's own. · How BV is worked out · what this means
  • Traffic reality check. Set any traffic claim beside the Sept 2026 estimate: 7.8M monthly visits, 35% from organic search (2.8M). Visits fell 23% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. Its top keyword by Visits (est.) is “tennis”, about 9,700 a month; the ad value beside it is the whole market's. · Traffic in detail · what this means

What each figure means, and what it cannot tell you: How to read a site report.

Quick answers about bizjournals.com

8 questions answered

What is a link from bizjournals.com worth?

BV, mxverify's backlink value, is an estimate of what one new followed link from a site is worth to rankings: by BV 2.8, a new followed link from bizjournals.com is worth about $482 (level B). Relevance moves it: $241 to an unrelated site, $602 to a same-topic site. BV is an estimate of ranking value, not a price anyone charges.

In short: a link from bizjournals.com is worth about $482 to rankings, up to $602 on the same topic.

Source: mxverify BV 2.8 methodology

Is a link from bizjournals.com worth placing?

That depends on the kind of link: by BV 2.8, a link from bizjournals.com is worth $963 as an editorial citation (level A), $482 as a guest, sponsored or listed link (level B), $96 as a press-release, syndicated, profile or forum link (level C), $48 as a network link (level D), before relevance. A price far above $602 for a level B link pays for something BV does not measure, such as the site's own readers. BV is an estimate of ranking value, not a verdict on the site or a price anyone charges.

Source: mxverify BV 2.8 methodology

How does bizjournals.com's BV compare with other sites?

At about $482 a link, bizjournals.com is in the “$250 to $499” value band, with 131 of the 3,589 sites valued on mxverify. 24 sites are in a higher band. The counts are mxverify's own, taken from its directory at the last daily update.

In short: 24 of the 3,589 valued sites sit in a higher value band than bizjournals.com.

Source: mxverify's own directory, counted at the last daily update

How much traffic does bizjournals.com get?

bizjournals.com gets about 7.8M visits a month (Sept 2026), by a modelled estimate of all its visitors, not analytics measured on the site. 35% of them (2.8M) come from organic search. Visits fell 23% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026.

In short: bizjournals.com draws about 7.8M visits a month, down 23% since Jul 2026.

Source: third-party traffic estimate, Sept 2026

Does bizjournals.com pass Core Web Vitals?

No: real Chrome users see bizjournals.com's largest content load in 2.5 s (LCP), and at least one vital reported for it is not 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: bizjournals.com does not pass Core Web Vitals on real-user data.

Source: Chrome UX Report, 28 days to 19 Oct 2026; web.dev: Web Vitals

How old is bizjournals.com?

The domain bizjournals.com was registered in 2000, 26 years ago. Domain age is a fact from the registry record, not a measure of a site's quality.

Source: the public registration record; RFC 9083: RDAP JSON responses

Has bizjournals.com been audited?

No link placed on bizjournals.com 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: bizjournals.com's report is valued, not audited.

How BV is worked out

Site Strength 80 / 100 · level B · each factor and link type

A followed editorial link from bizjournals.com would be worth up to $963 under BV 2.8, before relevance: its Site Strength is 80 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level B, worth about $482 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $241 and $602.

Site Strength
80 / 100, in steps of 5 · half the site's authority rating, half its organic traffic on a log scale; 100 is the strongest site on the web. Traffic: 2.8M estimated monthly organic visits, as of 22 October 2026.
Worth up to
$963 · a followed editorial link at this strength, before relevance (×0.5 unrelated to ×1.25 same topic) — see how it is calculated
Usual link type
Level B — may be discounted → ×0.5
We could not read this site's pages — it blocked our reader or did not answer — and no link placed here has been audited, so the default for a link inside an article applies. 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
$482 per link
Domain registered
24 February 2000 · shown for context; BV does not price on age, but a domain registered in the last 30 days is never priced as not in Google

A link from bizjournals.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.

LevelWhat it isFactorValue
A — CountedAn editorial citation: the site linked because it is useful to its readers.×1$963
B — May be discountedA guest, sponsored or placed article, or a product or tool directory listing.×0.5$482
C — Usually neutralisedA press release or syndicated copy, a forum post, profile, footer or sidebar link — and any nofollow link.×0.1$96
D — NetworkA site on a server whose sites show footprints of one owner, a link farm, or machine-generated pages.×0.05$48

How bizjournals.com links out: the full reading

the site did not let our reader in

We could not read bizjournals.com's pages when it was valued on 22 October 2026 — the site blocked our reader or did not answer — so its link type is set by fixed rules until a later reading succeeds.

Traffic in detail

engagement, top keywords, AI assistants

Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, as of 22 October 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself.

#9,419global rank
#1,987rank in US
61%bounce rate
1.9pages per visit
1m 29stime on site
Every channel
  • Organic search35%
  • Direct37%
  • Referrals4.5%
  • Social4.3%
  • AI assistants0.4%
  • Email5.5%
  • Paid13%
  • Affiliate and other0.0%

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

Top search keywords
KeywordSearches / moCPCAd value / moVisits (est.)
tennis916.5K$0.98$898.2K9,700
chicken salad chick89.1K$0.27$24.1K9,530
giant eagle83.4K$0.44$36.7K6,260
philadelphia business journal5,280$2.46$13K6,110
baltimore227.7K$1.51$343.9K4,620

Ad value: what a month of the keyword's searches would cost as search ads (searches × cost per click) — what advertisers pay for it, not how hard it is to rank for. Visits (est.): the traffic estimate's own figure for the keyword on this site, which behaves like visits a month, not an amount of money. Each keyword opens the list of sites where it is a top search keyword.

AI assistants

AI assistants sent about 32K visits in Sept 2026 — 0.4% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month:

ChatGPTPerplexityClaude

0%50%100%Jul 2026Aug 2026Sept 2026ChatGPT, Jul 2026: 97% of AI-assistant visitsChatGPT, Aug 2026: 87% of AI-assistant visitsChatGPT, Sept 2026: 60% of AI-assistant visitsPerplexity, Jul 2026: 2.1% of AI-assistant visitsPerplexity, Aug 2026: 7.1% of AI-assistant visitsPerplexity, Sept 2026: 0.7% of AI-assistant visitsClaude, Jul 2026: 0% of AI-assistant visitsClaude, Aug 2026: 0.2% of AI-assistant visitsClaude, Sept 2026: 0.2% of AI-assistant visits
AssistantJul 2026Aug 2026Sept 2026
ChatGPT97%87%60%
Perplexity2.1%7.1%0.7%
Claude0%0.2%0.2%

Third-party traffic estimates. BV uses only the organic-search figure.

Server and network

0 other publications on the server · 127 on the network

No other publication in the directory runs on 34.237.162.142. 127 publications are on the same hosting network (Amazon AWS, AS14618) — a cloud platform hosting millions of unrelated sites, so that is no sign of a connection.

Amazon AWS 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

8 figures, their sources and dates
FigureSourceWhat it covers
Backlink valueBV 2.8Site Strength × link type; link type at the default until the site is read or audited
Links placed herebklink auditsNone audited yet
How it links outRead by mxverifyThe site did not let our reader in (22 Oct 2026)
TrafficThird-party estimatesModelled estimates for Sept 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 22 Oct 2026
Links to this siteThird-party backlink index167,981 linking sites, read 22 Oct 2026; one reading a month
AuthorityAhrefs Domain RatingHalf of Site Strength, shown in steps of 5, as of 24 Oct 2026; the rating itself is not shown
Server and networkDNS and ASN registry34.237.162.142 · Amazon AWS
Domain ageDomain registry (RDAP)Registered 24 Feb 2000

Limitations: what this report does not show

5 stated plainly
  • No link on this publication has been audited yet, so nothing here describes how its links behave.
  • A link that is followed is not necessarily a link search engines value; this record does not measure rankings or traffic.
  • The BV score is what one new followed link from bizjournals.com is worth to rankings, from its Site Strength and the kind of link on offer. It is not a price, and it does not predict what a link will do for a particular site: relevance to that site moves it between half and one and a quarter times.
  • Traffic figures come from a third-party traffic source, named with its date in the evidence box above; no one outside a site sees its analytics.
  • bizjournals.com's visits fell 23% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. Half of Site Strength is organic search traffic, so a fall that lasts lowers BV when the figure is next read.

Compiled from bklink.uk audits · maintained by Palash Bagchi · updated 24 October 2026