Backlink value and traffic report for forbes.com

• Price check. BV puts a new link from forbes.com at $215 (level B · nofollow): $107 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $269 to a same-topic site (×1.25). A followed one would be worth $596 before relevance. A followed editorial link (level A) would be worth up to $1,193 before relevance. A quote far above $746 for a followed level B link pays for what BV does not measure. · Backlink value · what this means
• Qualification and risk. Its Site Strength is 85 / 100; the link it usually gives is level B — may be discounted (a guest, sponsored or listed link), with nofollow on 82% of its links (in the 3 articles we read). · How BV is worked out · what this means
• Traffic reality check. Set any traffic claim beside the Sept 2026 estimate: 55.8M monthly visits, 50% from organic search (27.8M). Visits fell 21% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. Its top keyword by Visits (est.) is “wordle”, about 540.7K 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.

A followed editorial link from forbes.com would be worth up to $1,193 under BV 2.8, before relevance: its Site Strength is 85 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level B (a guest, sponsored or listed link), but 82% of its links are nofollow, so it is worth about $215 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $107 and $269.

Site Strength

85 / 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: 27.8M estimated monthly organic visits, as of 21 October 2026.

Worth up to

$1,193 · 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 · nofollow on 82% of its links → ×0.18
Read by Jev from our own reading of forbes.com's homepage and 3 articles; 82% of the links those articles make to other sites are nofollow, sponsored or ugc, and BV caps that share of a new link at C. No link placed here has been audited yet.

Relevance to your site

×1 · neutral here; in an audit it runs from ×0.5 (unrelated) to ×1.25 (same topic)

BV score

$215 per link

Domain registered

17 June 1993 · 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 forbes.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.

82% of forbes.com's links are nofollow, so a new link from it — a guest, sponsored or listed link — is priced at ×0.18: $215, where a followed one would be worth $596. BV prices the ranking value a link passes, and a nofollow link passes little.

forbes.com is served through Fastly (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, and sharing the network is no sign of a connection.

Fastly (CDN) fronts millions of unrelated sites, so sharing it says nothing about who runs a site. The count is shown; the sites are not listed.

• No link on this publication has been audited yet, so nothing here describes how its links behave.
• 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.
• The BV score is what one new followed link from forbes.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.
• forbes.com's visits fell 21% 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.