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title: "games.usatoday.com Backlink Value & Traffic Report"
url: https://mxverify.uk/publications/games.usatoday.com
description: "games.usatoday.com: a followed link from it is worth $692 by BV 2.9 (link type A). About 1.6M visits a month, 36% organic. 1,670 websites link to it."
site: mxverify
generated: 2026-11-13T05:10:47.332Z
---

# Backlink value and traffic report for games.usatoday.com

**In short:** A new followed link from games.usatoday.com is worth about $692 to rankings by BV 2.9 (level A, Site Strength 75 of 100). It gets about 1.6M visits a month, 36% from organic search, down 18% since Aug 2026. No link placed on it has been audited.

First recorded 11 November 2026 · Last updated 11 November 2026 · [Visit games.usatoday.com](https://games.usatoday.com/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report)

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## Backlink value · what one new followed link from games.usatoday.com is worth to rankings

[BV **$692** per link · level A · strength 75](https://bklink.uk/methodology?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report#bv)

reading confidence **Fair, 67 out of 100**

Reading confidence 67 / 100

- What we read 80
- Our model's certainty 83
- Its view of the pages 63

10 of 10 pages read had text · 44 links to other sites seen · posts from Nov 2026

How much of games.usatoday.com we read, and how sure our model was about the kind of link it gives. Never higher than what we read. [The full reading](https://mxverify.uk/publications/games.usatoday.com#reading)

**Priced from our reading of the site.** No reliable sample of checked links yet: its link type comes from the articles mxverify read on the site. Priced 13 Nov 2026 · pages read 11 Nov 2026.

**Relevance to the linked site moves it**

**$346** unrelated ×0.5 **$865** same topic ×1.25

**By the kind of link it gives**

- A editorial $778
- B guest, sponsored $389
- C neutralised $78
- D network $39

Priced on a blend of link types: A 85% · B 6% · C 8% · D 1% → ×0.89.

[How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/games.usatoday.com#bv-detail) · BV 2.9

**[1.6M](https://mxverify.uk/publications/games.usatoday.com#traffic)** monthly visits −18% since Aug 2026

**[599.4K](https://mxverify.uk/publications/games.usatoday.com#traffic)** from organic search 36% of visits

**[1,670](https://mxverify.uk/publications/games.usatoday.com#links-in)** sites link to it 991 of them nofollow

**1994** domain registered expires Apr 2027

**[1.4 s](https://mxverify.uk/publications/games.usatoday.com#tech)** page load for real users (LCP) does not pass Core Web Vitals

**[$6.6K–$26K](https://mxverify.uk/publications/games.usatoday.com#ad-revenue)** potential display-ad revenue a month · estimate

## How it compares · among 127 gaming sites on mxverify

- More monthly visits than 66% of the 127 gaming sites on mxverify.
- 36% of its visits come from organic search; the median gaming site gets 42%.
- AI assistants send 0.1% of its visits, about 70% of the 0.2% the median gaming site gets.
- A new followed link from it is worth more than a link from 99% of gaming sites.
- Priced at level A, the highest, like 3% of gaming sites.

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: 2M visits; Sept 2026: 1.9M visits; Oct 2026: 1.6M visits

**Where visitors come from**

Direct 51%, Organic search 36%, Referrals 11%, Email 1.1%, Social 0.6%

- [Direct](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/direct) **51%**
- [Organic search](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/organic-search) **36%**
- [Referrals](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/referrals) **11%**
- [Email](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/email) **1.1%**
- [Social](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/social) **0.6%**

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

**Top countries**

- [United States](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/united-states) 92%
- [Canada](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/canada) 5.0%
- [New Zealand](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/new-zealand) 0.7%
- [Malaysia](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/malaysia) 0.4%
- [Australia](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/australia) 0.3%
- Other countries 1.4%

## Where it ranks on Google

### On the first page 4 keywords

- [game 8th](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/game)
- [daily games 4th](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/daily-games)
- [dle games 6th](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/dle-games)
- [daily tens 1st](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/daily-tens)

### Cited in AI Overview 4 keywords

- [online games](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/online-games)
- [daily games](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/daily-games)
- [categories game](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/categories-game)
- [daily word games](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/daily-word-games)

Google, United States, English, read November 2026 and refreshed monthly by mxverify. Only the keywords mxverify tracks are read, so games.usatoday.com may rank for many others.

## Related sites

### Share its top search keywords

- [mahjon.gg](https://mxverify.uk/publications/mahjon.gg) 2 keywords in common: mahjong, mahjong online

## Links to this site

Links other sites have made to games.usatoday.com, from outside link indexes: not the links placed on it that bklink audits.

**1,670** websites link to it 991 of them with nofollow links

**12.4K** links in all, from those websites about 7 per website · first seen 2019

**47** spam score of its links 0–100, the linking pages' average

**1,270** IP addresses they link from 881 subnets

**Where the links sit:** 44% in the article or main content of the linking page, 9.2% in its header, menu, sidebar or footer · 44% in no page section the index could name, the rest in other sections; of the 11.8K 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 games.usatoday.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 games.usatoday.com is nofollow. It is followed when the site's owner audits games.usatoday.com'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

**100%** of its links followed

**44** links to other sites

**10** articles read

Followed 100%

Fair sample Read 11 Nov 2026 · [the full reading](https://mxverify.uk/publications/games.usatoday.com#reading)

## Domain and hosting

- **Domain registered**: 29 April 1994
- **Registration expires**: 30 April 2027 · the registered domain usatoday.com's
- **Record last changed**: 31 March 2026 · the registered domain usatoday.com's
- **Content category**: [gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/gaming)
- **Server address**: 151.101.2.62 · CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites
- **Hosting network**: Fastly (CDN) · AS54113 · US

## Tech stack

- [Served byCloudflare](https://mxverify.uk/publications/tech/cloudflare)

### 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: linked from the homepage
- ✗ Named editorial staff: no editorial staff named on its own pages

Editorial staff: no editorial staff named on its own pages, read from [help](https://games.usatoday.com/help?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report). A model's reading of those pages ([how](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#newsroom)); BV does not price on it.

Structured data: WebSite, ItemList, ListItem.

### Page speed

Chrome users, 28 days to 8 Nov 2026: LCP 1.4 s · INP 179 ms · CLS 0.12 — does not pass Core Web Vitals. Data from the Chrome UX Report (Google), CC BY 4.0.

Devices: 30% phone · 65% desktop · 5% tablet — share of Chrome page loads, same 28 days.

Sources: homepage read 12 Nov 2026.

## Similar sites

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

- [smartle.net BV $31 · level B · nofollow C Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/smartle.net)
- [sportsdle.com BV $16 · level C C Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/sportsdle.com)
- [songquiz.io BV $20 · level C C Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/songquiz.io)
- [songtrivia.io BV $30 · level C C Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/songtrivia.io)
- [digipen.edu BV $361 · level A A Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/digipen.edu)
- [noillirk.io BV $16 · level B B Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/noillirk.io)

More like it: [Editorial backlink sites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/level/a) · [High-value backlink sites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/value/500-plus) · [Gaming blogs and game sites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/gaming)

How to use this report 3 ways to use these figures

- **Price check.** BV puts one new followed link from games.usatoday.com at $692 (level A), priced on a blend of link types (A 85% · B 6% · C 8% · D 1%): $346 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $865 to a same-topic site (×1.25). A followed editorial link (level A) would be worth up to $778 before relevance. A quote far above $973 for a level A link pays for what BV does not measure. · [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/games.usatoday.com#value) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#use)
- **Qualification and risk.** Its Site Strength is 75 / 100; the link it usually gives is mostly level A — counted (an editorial citation). In the 10 articles we read, 0% of the links to other sites are nofollow, sponsored or ugc. The spam score of its links is 47 (0–100, the linking pages' average), not games.usatoday.com's own. · [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/games.usatoday.com#bv-detail) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#levels)
- **Traffic reality check.** Set any traffic claim beside the Oct 2026 estimate: 1.6M monthly visits, 36% from organic search (599.4K). Visits fell 18% from Aug 2026 to Oct 2026. Its top keyword by Visits (est.) is “mahjong”, about 60K a month; the ad value beside it is the whole market's. · [Traffic in detail](https://mxverify.uk/publications/games.usatoday.com#traffic) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#traffic)

Quick answers about games.usatoday.com 9 questions answered

### What is a link from games.usatoday.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 2.9, a new followed link from games.usatoday.com is worth about $692 (level A). Relevance moves it: $346 to an unrelated site, $865 to a same-topic site.

In short: a link from games.usatoday.com is worth about $692 to rankings, up to $865 on the same topic.

Source: [mxverify BV 2.9 methodology](https://mxverify.uk/methodology)

### Is a link from games.usatoday.com worth placing?

That depends on the kind of link: by BV 2.9, a link from games.usatoday.com is worth $778 as an editorial citation (level A), $389 as a guest, sponsored or listed link (level B), $78 as a press-release, syndicated, profile or forum link (level C), $39 as a network link (level D), before relevance. A price far above $973 for a level A 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 games.usatoday.com's BV compare with other sites?

At about $692 a link, games.usatoday.com is in the “$500 or more” value band, with 55 of the 4,532 sites valued on mxverify. No site is in a higher band.

In short: games.usatoday.com is in the highest value band of the 4,532 sites valued on mxverify.

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

### How much traffic does games.usatoday.com get?

games.usatoday.com gets about 1.6M visits a month (Oct 2026), by a modelled estimate of all its visitors, not analytics measured on the site. 36% of them (599.4K) come from organic search. Visits fell 18% from Aug 2026 to Oct 2026.

In short: games.usatoday.com draws about 1.6M visits a month, down 18% since Aug 2026.

Source: [third-party traffic estimate, Oct 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/games.usatoday.com#evidence)

### Does games.usatoday.com pass Core Web Vitals?

No: real Chrome users see games.usatoday.com's largest content load in 1.4 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: games.usatoday.com does not pass Core Web Vitals on real-user data.

Source: [Chrome UX Report, 28 days to 8 Nov 2026](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux); [web.dev: Web Vitals](https://web.dev/articles/vitals)

### Does games.usatoday.com link out with nofollow?

In the 10 articles we read, games.usatoday.com made 44 links to other sites, and 0% of them were nofollow, sponsored or ugc; the other 100% were followed.

Source: [mxverify's reading of 10 articles, 11 Nov 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/games.usatoday.com#reading); [Google Search Central: qualify your outbound links](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/qualify-outbound-links)

### How old is games.usatoday.com?

The registered domain usatoday.com was registered in 1994, 32 years ago. games.usatoday.com is a subdomain, so it carries its registered domain's registration date.

Source: the public registration record; [RFC 9083: RDAP JSON responses](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9083/)

### How many sites link to games.usatoday.com?

1,670 websites link to games.usatoday.com, each counted once. 991 of them (59%) link with nofollow.

Source: [third-party backlink index, Nov 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/games.usatoday.com#evidence)

### Has games.usatoday.com been audited?

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

How BV is worked out Site Strength 75 / 100 · level A · each factor and link type

A followed editorial link from games.usatoday.com would be worth up to $778 under BV 2.9, before relevance: its Site Strength is 75 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level A, worth about $692 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $346 and $865.

- **Site Strength**: **75** / 100 ([how Site Strength is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report)). Traffic: 599.4K estimated monthly organic visits, as of 11 November 2026.
- **Worth up to**: $778 · before relevance — [how it is calculated](https://mxverify.uk/backlink-value#how)
- **Usual link type**: Mostly level A — counted · A 85%, B 6%, C 8%, D 1% → ×0.89 (each level's factor below, weighted by those shares) Read by Jev from our own reading of games.usatoday.com's homepage and 10 articles. No link placed here has been audited yet.
- **Relevance to your site**: ×1 · neutral here ([range in an audit](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report))
- **BV score**: **$692** per link
- **Domain registered**: 29 April 1994 · shown for context ([how age is used](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report))

### A link from games.usatoday.com, by link type

A link from games.usatoday.com at each level. [What each level means](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#link-levels).

| Level | Factor | Value |
| --- | --- | --- |
| A — Counted | ×1 | $778 |
| B — May be discounted | ×0.5 | $389 |
| C — Usually neutralised | ×0.1 | $78 |
| D — Network | ×0.05 | $39 |

How games.usatoday.com links out: the full reading 10 articles read · each link counted

Read by mxverify on 11 November 2026: the homepage and 10 articles (10 linked from its homepage).

Fair sample 44 links to other sites across 10 articles published in Nov 2026.

**Links its articles make to other sites**

- Followed 100%
- Nofollow 0%
- Sponsored 0%
- User-generated (ugc) 0%

44 links to other sites across 10 articles, share buttons left out.

**What its homepage offers**

No guest-post, sponsored-post or advertising pages linked from the homepage.

### Articles read

| Article | Published | Words | Links out | Followed | Says |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Pete Hegseth avoids impeachment vote with GOP support](https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/11/10/pete-hegseth-avoids-impeachment-vote/92714806007/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 931 | 2 | 2 | — |
| [Iranian death threats prompt Trump official's move to military base](https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/11/10/scott-bessent-moved-to-military-base-after-iranian-death-threats/92719256007/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 523 | 6 | 6 | — |
| [CFP rankings live updates, Playoff bracket 2026 analysis, reaction](https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/college-football-playoffs/2026/11/10/cfp-football-rankings-show-time-live-updates-college-football-playoff-2026-bracket/92707429007/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 1,026 | 0 | 0 | — |
| [North Hollywood crash: Car strikes pedestrians, killing at least 3](https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/11/10/los-angeles-north-hollywood-pedestrian-crash/92718443007/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 532 | 5 | 5 | — |
| ['Valor' over 'vanity': JFK heirs sue Trump over plans to build arch](https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/11/10/valor-over-vanity-jfk-heirs-sue-trump-over-plans-to-build-arch/92716131007/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 724 | 3 | 3 | — |
| ['Drinking from a fire hose': Freshmen lawmakers descend on Washington](https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/11/10/newly-elected-lawmakers-orientation/92701316007/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 944 | 0 | 0 | — |
| [Central Park rape suspect arrested at Burger King in Miami Beach](https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/11/10/central-park-rape-suspect-arrested-miami-beach/92716007007/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 766 | 13 | 13 | — |
| [Winter weather forecast calls for cold, frost and snow](https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/weather/2026/11/10/winter-weather-forecast-november-cold-frost-snow/92706328007/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 948 | 12 | 12 | — |
| [Megyn Kelly accuses judge of bias for Russell Brand’s prison sentence](https://eu.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv-streaming/2026/11/10/megyn-kelly-russell-brands-prison-sentence/92708118007/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 489 | 3 | 3 | — |
| [Why Americans who never needed help are suddenly turning to food banks](https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/11/10/why-americans-never-needed-help-visit-food-banks/92589261007/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 1,781 | 0 | 0 | — |

Jev, the model that judges every link in a bklink audit, reads these pages as a site whose links are mostly level **A** — A 99%, B 0%, C 1.0%, D 0%. Put together with what kind of site it is, how established it is, whether it sells placements and how it links out, a new link here is priced as A 85%, B 6.3%, C 7.8%, D 1.0%.

Jev reads it as a publication (94%), major as a source (84%), and not selling guest, sponsored or paid posts (97%).

Traffic in detail engagement, top keywords, AI assistants · AI crawler access

Modelled estimates for Oct 2026, as of 11 November 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself.

- **#34,210** global rank
- **#7,989** rank in US
- **43%** bounce rate
- **4.1** pages per visit
- **12m 11s** time on site

**Every channel**

- [Organic search](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/organic-search) 36%
- [Direct](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/direct) 51%
- [Referrals](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/referrals) 11%
- [Social](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/social) 0.6%
- AI assistants 0.1%
- [Email](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/email) 1.1%
- [Paid](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/paid) 0.0%
- 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.) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [mahjong](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/mahjong) | 5M | $0.83 | $4.2M | 60K |
| [games](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/games) | 37.2M | $0.41 | $15.3M | 17K |
| [word wipe](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/word-wipe) | 165K | $0.06 | $9,900 | 13K |
| [mahjong online](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/mahjong-online) | 550K | $0.59 | $324.5K | 8,040 |
| [unolingo](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/unolingo) | 18.1K | $0.96 | $17.4K | 7,700 |

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 **1,979** visits in Oct 2026 — 0.1% of all visits. No assistant breakdown reported.

**AI crawler access**

games.usatoday.com'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 games.usatoday.com/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 $6,600–$26,000 a month (estimate) · what it rests on

**$6,600–$26,000** a month, estimated

- 6.8M pageviews a month: 1.6M visits × 4.1 pages per visit (Oct 2026)
- Niche: Gaming, from its content category · entertainment and news page RPM $1–$4 per 1,000 pageviews
- 98% 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 a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites

Its domain was registered in 1994.

mxverify looked up games.usatoday.com's address: it 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.

Where each figure comes from 9 figures, their sources and dates

| Figure | Source | What it covers |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/games.usatoday.com#value) | BV 2.9 | Site Strength × link type; link type from our reading of the site |
| [Links placed here](https://mxverify.uk/publications/games.usatoday.com#links) | bklink audits | None audited yet |
| [How it links out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/games.usatoday.com#reading) | Read by mxverify | 44 links to other sites in 10 articles, published Nov 2026; read 11 Nov 2026 Fair sample |
| [Traffic](https://mxverify.uk/publications/games.usatoday.com#traffic) | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Oct 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 11 Nov 2026 |
| [Links to this site](https://mxverify.uk/publications/games.usatoday.com#links-in) | Third-party backlink index | 1,670 linking sites, read 12 Nov 2026; one reading a month |
| [Authority](https://mxverify.uk/publications/games.usatoday.com#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/games.usatoday.com#server) | mxverify's DNS and ASN lookup | 151.101.2.62 · Fastly (CDN) · a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites |
| [Domain age](https://mxverify.uk/publications/games.usatoday.com#hosting) | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 29 Apr 1994 |
| [Potential display-ad revenue](https://mxverify.uk/publications/games.usatoday.com#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 4 stated plainly

- 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.
- games.usatoday.com gives more than one kind of link (A 85% · B 6% · C 8% · D 1%), so BV prices a blend of them: an editorial link there would be worth $778 and a guest or sponsored one $389, before relevance.
- games.usatoday.com's visits fell 18% from Aug 2026 to Oct 2026. Half of Site Strength is organic search traffic, so a fall that lasts lowers BV when the figure is next read.

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 11 November 2026

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Source: mxverify, "games.usatoday.com Backlink Value & Traffic Report", https://mxverify.uk/publications/games.usatoday.com (retrieved 2026-11-13). How every figure is worked out: https://mxverify.uk/methodology