--- title: "closeword.org Backlink Value & Traffic Report" url: https://mxverify.uk/publications/closeword.org description: "closeword.org: a followed link from it is worth $87 by BV 2.9 (link type B). About 195.2K visits a month, 17% organic. 115 websites link to it." site: mxverify generated: 2026-11-13T05:10:57.523Z --- # Backlink value and traffic report for closeword.org **In short:** A new followed link from closeword.org is worth about $87 to rankings by BV 2.9 (level B, Site Strength 40 of 100). It gets about 195.2K visits a month, 17% from organic search, up 6.3% since Aug 2026. No link placed on it has been audited. First recorded 12 November 2026 · Last updated 12 November 2026 · [Visit closeword.org](https://closeword.org/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) [Compare](https://mxverify.uk/compare/closeword.org#add) Show closeword.org's BV badge on your site The badge shows what a link from closeword.org 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. ## Backlink value · what one new followed link from closeword.org is worth to rankings [BV **$87** per link · level B · strength 40](https://bklink.uk/methodology?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report#bv) reading confidence **Nothing to read** We read the homepage of closeword.org but found no articles in its feed, sitemap or homepage links, so its BV takes the usual link type. **Thin evidence.** No links checked, pages read but no articles found: estimated from authority and traffic, with the link type assumed. Priced 13 Nov 2026 · pages read 12 Nov 2026. **Relevance to the linked site moves it** **$44** unrelated ×0.5 **$109** same topic ×1.25 **By the kind of link it gives** - A editorial $174 - B guest, sponsored $87 - C neutralised $17 - D network $8.72 [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/closeword.org#bv-detail) · BV 2.9 **[195.2K](https://mxverify.uk/publications/closeword.org#traffic)** monthly visits +6.3% since Aug 2026 **[33.2K](https://mxverify.uk/publications/closeword.org#traffic)** from organic search 17% of visits **[#192,316](https://mxverify.uk/publications/closeword.org#traffic)** global rank **[115](https://mxverify.uk/publications/closeword.org#links-in)** sites link to it 60 of them nofollow **[2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/2020s)** domain registered expires Apr 2027 **[$330–$1.3K](https://mxverify.uk/publications/closeword.org#ad-revenue)** potential display-ad revenue a month · estimate ## How it compares · among 127 gaming sites on mxverify - Fewer monthly visits than 65% of the 127 gaming sites on mxverify. - 17% of its visits come from organic search; the median gaming site gets 42%. - AI assistants send 0.1% of its visits, about 60% of the 0.2% the median gaming site gets. - A new followed link from it is worth more than a link from 57% of gaming sites. - Priced at level B, like 54% of gaming sites; 3% are level A. Peers are the most specific group of at least 20 sites on mxverify it belongs to: its topic, its category or its kind of site. Figures are third-party traffic estimates and mxverify's BV, as elsewhere on this report. **Monthly visits** Aug 2026: 183.7K visits; Sept 2026: 191.1K visits; Oct 2026: 195.2K visits **Where visitors come from** Direct 56%, Referrals 24%, Organic search 17%, Social 1.6%, Email 0.9% - [Direct](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/direct) **56%** - [Referrals](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/referrals) **24%** - [Organic search](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/organic-search) **17%** - [Social](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/social) **1.6%** - [Email](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/email) **0.9%** Organic search, in green, is the traffic BV prices on. **Top countries** - [United States](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/united-states) 35% - [India](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/india) 16% - [Poland](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/poland) 8.2% - [Indonesia](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/indonesia) 5.1% - [Vietnam](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/vietnam) 4.7% - Other countries 31% ## Where it ranks on Google ### On the first page 1 keyword - [categories game 5th](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/categories-game) Google, United States, English, read November 2026 and refreshed monthly by mxverify. Only the keywords mxverify tracks are read, so closeword.org may rank for many others. ## Links to this site Links other sites have made to closeword.org, from outside link indexes: not the links placed on it that bklink audits. **115** websites link to it 60 of them with nofollow links **850** links in all, from those websites about 7 per website · first seen 2026 **6** spam score of its links 0–100, the linking pages' average **102** IP addresses they link from 89 subnets **Where the links sit:** 7.2% in the article or main content of the linking page, 1.1% in its header, menu, sidebar or footer · 5.3% in no page section the index could name, the rest in other sections; of the 847 links it sorted by where they sit Sources: link counts and spam score from a third-party backlink index, read 12 November 2026; the chart grows by one reading a month. ## Links placed here No link placed on closeword.org 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 closeword.org is nofollow. It is followed when the site's owner audits closeword.org's own backlinks on bklink.uk, chooses to publish it and proves the site is theirs (for 90 days from each audit), or once a one-time payment of $9 is made for it. [When a link here is followed](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#followed-links) ## How it links out No articles found to read from its feed, sitemap or homepage. Read 12 Nov 2026 · [the full reading](https://mxverify.uk/publications/closeword.org#reading) ## Domain and hosting - **Domain registered**: [07 April 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/2020s) - **Registration expires**: 07 April 2027 - **Record last changed**: 11 August 2026 - **Content category**: [gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/gaming) - **Server address**: 65.108.78.181 - **Hosting network**: Hetzner · AS24940 · DE ## Tech stack - [Served byCloudflare](https://mxverify.uk/publications/tech/cloudflare) - [AdsEzoic](https://mxverify.uk/publications/tech/ezoic) - [Ad loadAd-heavy · 11 ad networks](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ads/heavy) ### Publisher signals - ✗ Author bylines: none marked up on the homepage - ✗ About page: not linked from the homepage - ✗ Editorial policy: not linked from the homepage - ✗ Contact page: not linked from the homepage Structured data: WebApplication, Offer, QuantitativeValue, WebSite, PlayAction. ### Page speed Chrome users, 28 days to 9 Nov 2026: LCP 2.1 s · INP 131 ms · CLS 0.01 — passes Core Web Vitals. Data from the Chrome UX Report (Google), CC BY 4.0. Devices: 34% phone · 62% desktop · 4% tablet — share of Chrome page loads, same 28 days. Sources: homepage read 12 Nov 2026; ad load from a web technology index, 12 Nov 2026. ## Similar sites Matched on the subject the two sites share. Never a site on the same server or network. - [guessing.games BV $134 · level B B Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/guessing.games) - [gamesdle.com BV $30 · level B B Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamesdle.com) - [wafflegame.net BV $205 · level B B Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wafflegame.net) - [mindgames.com BV $205 · level B B Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/mindgames.com) - [playlin.io BV $129 · level B B Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/playlin.io) - [wordgames.com BV $25 · level C C Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wordgames.com) More like it: [Guest post sites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/level/b) · [Backlink sites worth $50 to $99 a link](https://mxverify.uk/publications/value/50-99) · [Gaming blogs and game sites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/gaming) · [New websites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/2020s) How to use this report 3 ways to use these figures - **Price check.** BV puts one new followed link from closeword.org at $87 (level B): $44 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $109 to a same-topic site (×1.25). A followed editorial link (level A) would be worth up to $174 before relevance. A quote far above $109 for a level B link pays for what BV does not measure. · [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/closeword.org#value) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#use) - **Qualification and risk.** Its Site Strength is 40 / 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 6 (0–100, the linking pages' average), not closeword.org's own. · [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/closeword.org#bv-detail) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#levels) - **Traffic reality check.** Set any traffic claim beside the Oct 2026 estimate: 195.2K monthly visits, 17% from organic search (33.2K). Visits rose 6.3% from Aug 2026 to Oct 2026. Its top keyword by Visits (est.) is “guess the word”, about 940 a month; the ad value beside it is the whole market's. · [Traffic in detail](https://mxverify.uk/publications/closeword.org#traffic) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#traffic) Quick answers about closeword.org 8 questions answered ### What is a link from closeword.org 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 closeword.org is worth about $87 (level B). Relevance moves it: $44 to an unrelated site, $109 to a same-topic site. In short: a link from closeword.org is worth about $87 to rankings, up to $109 on the same topic. Source: [mxverify BV 2.9 methodology](https://mxverify.uk/methodology) ### Is a link from closeword.org worth placing? That depends on the kind of link: by BV 2.9, a link from closeword.org is worth $174 as an editorial citation (level A), $87 as a guest, sponsored or listed link (level B), $17 as a press-release, syndicated, profile or forum link (level C), $8.72 as a network link (level D), before relevance. A price far above $109 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](https://mxverify.uk/methodology) ### How does closeword.org's BV compare with other sites? At about $87 a link, closeword.org is in the “$50 to $99” value band, with 419 of the 4,532 sites valued on mxverify. 610 sites are in a higher band. In short: 610 of the 4,532 valued sites sit in a higher value band than closeword.org. Source: mxverify's own directory, counted at the last daily update ### How much traffic does closeword.org get? closeword.org gets about 195.2K visits a month (Oct 2026), by a modelled estimate of all its visitors, not analytics measured on the site. 17% of them (33.2K) come from organic search. Visits rose 6.3% from Aug 2026 to Oct 2026. In short: closeword.org draws about 195.2K visits a month, up 6.3% since Aug 2026. Source: [third-party traffic estimate, Oct 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/closeword.org#evidence) ### Does closeword.org pass Core Web Vitals? Yes: real Chrome users see closeword.org's largest content load in 2.1 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: closeword.org passes Core Web Vitals on real-user data. Source: [Chrome UX Report, 28 days to 9 Nov 2026](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux); [web.dev: Web Vitals](https://web.dev/articles/vitals) ### How old is closeword.org? The domain closeword.org was registered in 2026. Source: the public registration record; [RFC 9083: RDAP JSON responses](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9083/) ### How many sites link to closeword.org? 115 websites link to closeword.org, each counted once. 60 of them (52%) link with nofollow. Source: [third-party backlink index, Nov 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/closeword.org#evidence) ### Has closeword.org been audited? No link placed on closeword.org 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: closeword.org's report is valued, not audited. How BV is worked out Site Strength 40 / 100 · level B · each factor and link type A followed editorial link from closeword.org would be worth up to $174 under BV 2.9, before relevance: its Site Strength is 40 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level B, worth about $87 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $44 and $109. - **Site Strength**: **40** / 100 ([how Site Strength is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report)). Traffic: 33.2K estimated monthly organic visits, as of 12 November 2026. - **Worth up to**: $174 · before relevance — [how it is calculated](https://mxverify.uk/backlink-value#how) - **Usual link type**: Level B — may be discounted → ×0.5 We read the homepage but found no articles to read, 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 ([range in an audit](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report)) - **BV score**: **$87** per link - **Domain registered**: 7 April 2026 · shown for context ([how age is used](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report)) ### A link from closeword.org, by link type A link from closeword.org at each level. [What each level means](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#link-levels). | Level | Factor | Value | | --- | --- | --- | | A — Counted | ×1 | $174 | | B — May be discounted | ×0.5 | $87 | | C — Usually neutralised | ×0.1 | $17 | | D — Network | ×0.05 | $8.72 | How closeword.org links out: the full reading 0 articles read · each link counted Read by mxverify on 12 November 2026: the homepage and no articles — none could be found from its feed, sitemap or homepage. **Links its articles make to other sites** No links to other sites in the articles read. **What its homepage offers** No guest-post, sponsored-post or advertising pages linked from the homepage. Jev has not judged this reading yet, so the link type is set by fixed rules. Traffic in detail engagement, top keywords, AI assistants · AI crawler access Modelled estimates for Oct 2026, as of 12 November 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself. - **#192,316** global rank - **#123,795** rank in US - **46%** bounce rate - **3.5** pages per visit - **4m 24s** time on site **Every channel** - [Organic search](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/organic-search) 17% - [Direct](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/direct) 56% - [Referrals](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/referrals) 24% - [Social](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/social) 1.6% - AI assistants 0.1% - [Email](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/email) 0.9% - [Paid](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/paid) 0.0% - Affiliate and other 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.) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [closeword](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/closeword) | 18.1K | $8.30 | $150.2K | 2,490 | | [guess the word](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/guess-the-word) | 74K | $1.13 | $83.6K | 940 | | [word guessing game where it tells you how close you are between two words](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/word-guessing-game-where-it-tells-you-how-close-you-are-between-two-words) | 190† | — | — | 450 | | [secret word](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/secret-word) | 8,100 | $0.76 | $6,156 | 440 | | [word to word game](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/word-to-word-game) | 210 | $1.11 | $233 | 430 | Searches, CPC and ad value: Google Ads, worldwide, its latest month, where it has the keyword; † third-party traffic estimates where it does not (the two often differ several times over). 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 **176** visits in Oct 2026 — 0.1% of all visits. No assistant breakdown reported. **AI crawler access** closeword.org's robots.txt lets every AI crawler below read the site. | Crawler | robots.txt | | --- | --- | | AI searchCrawls when an assistant searches the web for an answer | | | ChatGPT OAI-SearchBot | ✓Allowed | | Claude Claude-SearchBot | ✓Allowed | | Perplexity PerplexityBot | ✓Allowed | | AI trainingCollects text to train AI models | | | OpenAI GPTBot | ✓Allowed | | Anthropic ClaudeBot | ✓Allowed | | Google Google-Extended | ✓Allowed | | Apple Applebot-Extended | ✓Allowed | | Meta Meta-ExternalAgent | ✓Allowed | | ByteDance Bytespider | ✓Allowed | | Common Crawl CCBot | ✓Allowed | Read from closeword.org/robots.txt on 12 November 2026. robots.txt is a request that crawlers choose to follow; a site can also refuse crawlers at its server, which this card does not see. Google's AI Overviews use Googlebot, so Google-Extended does not affect them. Third-party traffic estimates. BV uses only the organic-search figure. Potential display-ad revenue $330–$1,300 a month (estimate) · what it rests on **$330–$1,300** a month, estimated - 686.6K pageviews a month: 195.2K visits × 3.5 pages per visit (Oct 2026) - Niche: Gaming, from its content category · entertainment and news page RPM $1–$4 per 1,000 pageviews - 35% of visits from the US, the UK, Canada and Australia; other countries counted at 20% of the rate An estimate from modelled traffic and niche benchmarks, not what the site earns. It does not know which ad networks the site uses, how viewable its ads are or how many a page carries. Not the keyword table's ad value, which is the whole market's search-ad spend. Worked out Nov 2026; worked out again on the 10th of each month. [How it is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/guide#ad-revenue) Server and network 0 other publications on the server · 21 on the network Its domain was registered in 2026. mxverify looked up closeword.org's address: no other publication in the directory runs on 65.108.78.181. 21 publications are on the same hosting network (Hetzner, AS24940) — a cloud platform hosting millions of unrelated sites, so that is no sign of a connection. Hetzner is a cloud platform hosting millions of unrelated sites, so sharing it says nothing about who runs a site. Where each figure comes from 9 figures, their sources and dates | Figure | Source | What it covers | | --- | --- | --- | | [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/closeword.org#value) | BV 2.9 | Site Strength × link type; link type at the default until the site is read or audited | | [Links placed here](https://mxverify.uk/publications/closeword.org#links) | bklink audits | None audited yet | | [How it links out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/closeword.org#reading) | Read by mxverify | Homepage read 12 Nov 2026; no articles found to read Thin sample | | [Traffic](https://mxverify.uk/publications/closeword.org#traffic) | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Oct 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 12 Nov 2026 | | [Links to this site](https://mxverify.uk/publications/closeword.org#links-in) | Third-party backlink index | 115 linking sites, read 12 Nov 2026; one reading a month | | [Authority](https://mxverify.uk/publications/closeword.org#value) | Ahrefs Domain Rating | Half of Site Strength, shown in steps of 5, as of 13 Nov 2026; the rating itself is not shown | | [Server and network](https://mxverify.uk/publications/closeword.org#server) | mxverify's DNS and ASN lookup | 65.108.78.181 · Hetzner | | [Domain age](https://mxverify.uk/publications/closeword.org#hosting) | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 7 Apr 2026 | | [Potential display-ad revenue](https://mxverify.uk/publications/closeword.org#ad-revenue) | mxverify estimate | Traffic estimate's pageviews for Oct 2026 × the entertainment and news page RPM benchmark × country factor, worked out Nov 2026; not the site's earnings | Limitations: what this report does not show 1 stated plainly - No link on this publication has been audited yet, so nothing here describes how its links behave. What each figure means: [How to read a site report](https://mxverify.uk/guide). What every report shares, said once: [how to read a report](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report). 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 12 November 2026 --- Source: mxverify, "closeword.org Backlink Value & Traffic Report", https://mxverify.uk/publications/closeword.org (retrieved 2026-11-13). How every figure is worked out: https://mxverify.uk/methodology