--- title: "Backlink Value & Traffic Report for bizjournals.com" url: https://mxverify.uk/publications/bizjournals.com description: "bizjournals.com: a followed link from it is worth $482 by BV 2.8 (link type B). 167,981 websites link to it. Not yet audited. Hosted on Amazon AWS (US)." site: mxverify generated: 2026-10-24T06:14:25.974Z --- mxverify · valued # 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](https://bizjournals.com/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) [Compare](https://mxverify.uk/compare/bizjournals.com#add) Show bizjournals.com's BV badge on your site The badge shows what a link from bizjournals.com is worth, as this report does, and updates by itself. It links to this report. Embed code (HTML) Copied Paste it where the badge should appear. It is a plain link and image: no script runs on your site. ## Backlink value · what one new followed link from bizjournals.com is worth to rankings [BV **$482** per link · level B · strength 80](https://bklink.uk/methodology?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report#bv) reading confidence **Couldn'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](https://mxverify.uk/publications/bizjournals.com#bv-detail) · BV 2.8 · not a price anyone charges **[7.8M](https://mxverify.uk/publications/bizjournals.com#traffic)** monthly visits −23% since Jul 2026 **[2.8M](https://mxverify.uk/publications/bizjournals.com#traffic)** from organic search 35% of visits **[#9,419](https://mxverify.uk/publications/bizjournals.com#traffic)** global rank **[167,981](https://mxverify.uk/publications/bizjournals.com#links-in)** sites link to it 15,972 of them nofollow **[2000](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/2000s)** domain registered expires Feb 2028 **[2.5 s](https://mxverify.uk/publications/bizjournals.com#tech)** page load for real users (LCP) does not pass Core Web Vitals **Monthly visits** Jul 2026: 10.1M visits; Aug 2026: 8.7M visits; Sept 2026: 7.8M visits **Where visitors come from** Direct 37%, Organic search 35%, Paid 13%, Email 5.5%, Referrals 4.5% - [Direct](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/direct) **37%** - [Organic search](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/organic-search) **35%** - Paid **13%** - Email **5.5%** - Referrals **4.5%** - Other channels **4.7%** Organic search, in green, is the traffic BV prices on. **Top countries** - [United States](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/united-states) 96% - India 0.6% - Canada 0.4% - United Kingdom 0.2% - Korea, Republic of 0.2% - Other countries 2.4% ## Links to this site Links other sites have made to bizjournals.com, from outside link indexes: not the links placed on it that bklink audits. **167,981** websites link to it 15,972 of them with nofollow links **4.8M** links in all, from those websites about 28 per website · first seen 2019 **26** spam score of its links 0–100, the linking pages' average **69,838** IP addresses they link from 29,320 subnets **Where the links sit:** 27% in the article or main content of the linking page, 10% in its header, menu, sidebar or footer · 51% in no page section the index could name, the rest in other sections; of the 4.1M links it sorted by where they sit **Pages in Google:** about 4,090,000 · the count Google gives for a site: search, its own estimate, which can be far off either way What Google shows for site:bizjournals.com — the first 10 pages 1. [The Business Journals | Connect with Local Business Leaders](https://advertise.bizjournals.com/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) advertise.bizjournals.com/ 2. [Advertise locally with The Business Journals](https://advertise.bizjournals.com/brands?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) advertise.bizjournals.com/brands 3. [St. Louis Business Journal](https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) www.bizjournals.com/stlouis 4. [Bizwomen Leadership Council | For Women Execs ...](https://connections.bizjournals.com/women/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) connections.bizjournals.com/women/ 5. [Triangle Business Journal](https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) www.bizjournals.com/triangle 6. [Book of Lists](https://promo.bizjournals.com/bookoflists/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) promo.bizjournals.com/bookoflists/ 7. [Philadelphia Business Journal](https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia 8. [Chicago Business Journal](https://www.bizjournals.com/chicago?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) www.bizjournals.com/chicago 9. [The Business Journals Help Center: Home](http://support.bizjournals.com/en/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) support.bizjournals.com/en/ 10. [Advertise in Houston with Houston Business Journal](https://advertise.bizjournals.com/brands/houston?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) advertise.bizjournals.com/brands/houston Sources: link counts and spam score from a third-party backlink index, read 22 October 2026; the chart grows by one reading a month; page count and pages from a Google site: search, 22 October 2026. BV prices on one of these only, the page count: when two site: searches at least 7 days apart both find no pages, and nothing on record shows Google indexing the site, a link from it is priced at most level C. ## Links placed here No link placed on bizjournals.com has been audited yet. [An audit on bklink.uk](https://bklink.uk/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) checks each one — still there, followed or not, where it sits — and marks this report audited. This report's link to bizjournals.com is nofollow. It is followed only when the site's owner audits bizjournals.com's own backlinks on bklink.uk, chooses to publish it and proves the site is theirs — for 90 days from each audit. [When a link here is followed](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#followed-links) ## 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](https://mxverify.uk/publications/bizjournals.com#reading) ## Tech stack - [Ad loadSome ads · 1 ad network](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ads/some) ### 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](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/2000s) - **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. - [forbes.com BV $215 · level B · nofollow C Same subject](https://mxverify.uk/publications/forbes.com) - [inc.com BV $482 · level B B Business and economy news](https://mxverify.uk/publications/inc.com) - [fortuneweek.com BV $46 · level B B Same subject](https://mxverify.uk/publications/fortuneweek.com) - [walkthebiz.com BV $24 · level B B Same subject](https://mxverify.uk/publications/walkthebiz.com) - [bankingreporter.com BV $37 · level B B Same subject](https://mxverify.uk/publications/bankingreporter.com) - [californiatelegraph.com BV $30 · level B B Local news](https://mxverify.uk/publications/californiatelegraph.com) More like it: [Guest post sites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/level/b) · [Backlink sites worth $250 to $499 a link](https://mxverify.uk/publications/value/250-499) · [2000s websites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/2000s) 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](https://mxverify.uk/publications/bizjournals.com#value) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#use) - **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](https://mxverify.uk/publications/bizjournals.com#bv-detail) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#levels) - **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](https://mxverify.uk/publications/bizjournals.com#traffic) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#traffic) What each figure means, and what it cannot tell you: [How to read a site report](https://mxverify.uk/guide). 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](https://mxverify.uk/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](https://mxverify.uk/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](https://mxverify.uk/publications/bizjournals.com#evidence) ### 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](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux); [web.dev: Web Vitals](https://web.dev/articles/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](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9083/) ### How many sites link to bizjournals.com? 167,981 websites link to bizjournals.com, each counted once. 15,972 of them (10%) link with nofollow. Source: [third-party backlink index, Oct 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/bizjournals.com#evidence) ### 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](https://mxverify.uk/backlink-value#how) - **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. | Level | What it is | Factor | Value | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A — Counted | An editorial citation: the site linked because it is useful to its readers. | ×1 | $963 | | B — May be discounted | A guest, sponsored or placed article, or a product or tool directory listing. | ×0.5 | $482 | | C — Usually neutralised | A press release or syndicated copy, a forum post, profile, footer or sidebar link — and any nofollow link. | ×0.1 | $96 | | D — Network | A 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. - **#9,419** global rank - **#1,987** rank in US - **61%** bounce rate - **1.9** pages per visit - **1m 29s** time on site **Every channel** - [Organic search](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/organic-search) 35% - [Direct](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/direct) 37% - Referrals 4.5% - Social 4.3% - AI assistants 0.4% - Email 5.5% - Paid 13% - Affiliate and other 0.0% Share of all visits. Organic search is highlighted: it is the traffic BV prices on. **Top search keywords** | Keyword | Searches / mo | CPC | Ad value / mo | Visits (est.) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [tennis](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/tennis) | 916.5K | $0.98 | $898.2K | 9,700 | | [chicken salad chick](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/chicken-salad-chick) | 89.1K | $0.27 | $24.1K | 9,530 | | [giant eagle](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/giant-eagle) | 83.4K | $0.44 | $36.7K | 6,260 | | [philadelphia business journal](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/philadelphia-business-journal) | 5,280 | $2.46 | $13K | 6,110 | | [baltimore](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/baltimore) | 227.7K | $1.51 | $343.9K | 4,620 | 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: [ChatGPT](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ai/chatgpt) [Perplexity](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ai/perplexity) [Claude](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ai/claude) ChatGPT: Jul 2026 97%, Aug 2026 87%, Sept 2026 60%; Perplexity: Jul 2026 2.1%, Aug 2026 7.1%, Sept 2026 0.7%; Claude: Jul 2026 0%, Aug 2026 0.2%, Sept 2026 0.2% | Assistant | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 | Sept 2026 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ChatGPT | 97% | 87% | 60% | | Perplexity | 2.1% | 7.1% | 0.7% | | Claude | 0% | 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 | Figure | Source | What it covers | | --- | --- | --- | | [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/bizjournals.com#value) | BV 2.8 | Site Strength × link type; link type at the default until the site is read or audited | | [Links placed here](https://mxverify.uk/publications/bizjournals.com#links) | bklink audits | None audited yet | | [How it links out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/bizjournals.com#reading) | Read by mxverify | The site did not let our reader in (22 Oct 2026) | | [Traffic](https://mxverify.uk/publications/bizjournals.com#traffic) | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 22 Oct 2026 | | [Links to this site](https://mxverify.uk/publications/bizjournals.com#links-in) | Third-party backlink index | 167,981 linking sites, read 22 Oct 2026; one reading a month | | [Authority](https://mxverify.uk/publications/bizjournals.com#value) | Ahrefs Domain Rating | Half of Site Strength, shown in steps of 5, as of 24 Oct 2026; the rating itself is not shown | | [Server and network](https://mxverify.uk/publications/bizjournals.com#server) | DNS and ASN registry | 34.237.162.142 · Amazon AWS | | [Domain age](https://mxverify.uk/publications/bizjournals.com#hosting) | Domain 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](https://bklink.uk/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) audits · maintained by [Palash Bagchi](https://mxverify.uk/about) · updated 24 October 2026 --- Source: mxverify, "Backlink Value & Traffic Report for bizjournals.com", https://mxverify.uk/publications/bizjournals.com (retrieved 2026-10-24). How every figure is worked out: https://mxverify.uk/methodology