What a link is worthBacklink value and traffic report for gamespot.com
In short: A new link from gamespot.com is worth about $201 to rankings by BV 2.9 (level A · nofollow, Site Strength 80 of 100). It gets about 28.5M visits a month, 58% from organic search, down 11% since Aug 2026. No link placed on it has been audited.
The badge shows what a link from gamespot.com is worth, as this report does, and updates by itself. It links to this report.
Backlink value · what one new followed link from gamespot.com is worth to rankings
BV$201per link · level A · nofollow · strength 80reading confidenceFair, 62 out of 100
Reading confidence 62 / 100
5 of 5 pages read had text · 31 links to other sites seen · posts Sept 2026 – Nov 2026
How much of gamespot.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
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.
$100 unrelated ×0.5$251 same topic ×1.25
How it compares · among 127 gaming sites on mxverify
- More monthly visits than 92% of the 127 gaming sites on mxverify.
- 58% of its visits come from organic search; the median gaming site gets 42%.
- AI assistants send 0.3% of its visits, about twice the 0.2% the median gaming site gets.
- A new followed link from it is worth more than a link from 84% of gaming sites.
- Priced at level C, like 41% of gaming sites; 3% are level A.
- Organic search58%
- Direct28%
- Social7.2%
- Referrals5.5%
- Email0.5%
Where it ranks on Google
Cited in AI Overview 1 keyword
Links to this site
Links other sites have made to gamespot.com, from outside link indexes: not the links placed on it that bklink audits.
Where the links sit: 31% in the article or main content of the linking page, 8.4% in its header, menu, sidebar or footer
Pages in Google: about 11,600,000
What Google shows for site:gamespot.com — the first 10 pages
Links placed here
No link placed on gamespot.com has been audited yet. An audit on bklink.uk checks each one — still there, followed or not, where it sits — and marks this report audited.
How it links out
Followed 13%Nofollow 87%
Domain and hosting
- Domain registered
- 13 January 1996
- Registration expires
- 12 January 2028
- Record last changed
- 15 March 2024
- Content category
- gaming
- Server address
- 162.159.142.170
- Hosting network
- Cloudflare (CDN)
Tech stack
Page speed
Chrome users, 28 days to 9 Nov 2026: LCP 1.2 s · INP 79 ms · CLS 0.14 — does not pass Core Web Vitals.
Devices: 72% phone · 27% desktop · 1% tablet — share of Chrome page loads, same 28 days.
Similar sites
How to use this report
- Price check. BV puts a new link from gamespot.com at $201 (level A · nofollow): $100 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $251 to a same-topic site (×1.25). A followed one would be worth $963 before relevance. A quote far above $1,204 for a followed level A link pays for what BV does not measure.
- Qualification and risk. Its Site Strength is 80 / 100; the link it usually gives is level A — counted (an editorial citation), with nofollow on 87% of its links (in the 5 articles we read). The spam score of its links is 21 (0–100, the linking pages' average), not gamespot.com's own.
- Traffic reality check. Set any traffic claim beside the Oct 2026 estimate: 28.5M monthly visits, 58% from organic search (16.6M). Visits fell 11% from Aug 2026 to Oct 2026. Its top keyword by Visits (est.) is “resident evil movie”, about 193.1K a month; the ad value beside it is the whole market's.
Quick answers about gamespot.com
What is a link from gamespot.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 link from gamespot.com is worth about $201 (level A · nofollow). Relevance moves it: $100 to an unrelated site, $251 to a same-topic site.
In short: a link from gamespot.com is worth about $201 to rankings, up to $251 on the same topic.
Source: mxverify BV 2.9 methodology
Is a link from gamespot.com worth placing?
That depends on the kind of link: by BV 2.9, a link from gamespot.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 $1,204 for a followed level A link pays for something BV does not measure, such as the site's own readers.
Source: mxverify BV 2.9 methodology
How does gamespot.com's BV compare with other sites?
At about $201 a link, gamespot.com is in the “$100 to $249” value band, with 380 of the 4,532 sites valued on mxverify. 230 sites are in a higher band.
In short: 230 of the 4,532 valued sites sit in a higher value band than gamespot.com.
Source: mxverify's own directory, counted at the last daily update
How much traffic does gamespot.com get?
gamespot.com gets about 28.5M visits a month (Oct 2026), by a modelled estimate of all its visitors, not analytics measured on the site. 58% of them (16.6M) come from organic search. Visits fell 11% from Aug 2026 to Oct 2026.
In short: gamespot.com draws about 28.5M visits a month, down 11% since Aug 2026.
Does gamespot.com pass Core Web Vitals?
No: real Chrome users see gamespot.com's largest content load in 1.2 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: gamespot.com does not pass Core Web Vitals on real-user data.
Source: Chrome UX Report, 28 days to 9 Nov 2026; web.dev: Web Vitals
Does gamespot.com link out with nofollow?
In the 5 articles we read, gamespot.com made 31 links to other sites, and 87% of them were nofollow, sponsored or ugc; the other 13% were followed.
In short: about 87% of gamespot.com's outbound links are nofollow, so a new link placed there may be too.
Source: mxverify's reading of 5 articles, 12 Nov 2026; Google Search Central: qualify your outbound links
How old is gamespot.com?
The domain gamespot.com was registered in 1996, 30 years ago.
Source: the public registration record; RFC 9083: RDAP JSON responses
How many sites link to gamespot.com?
136,746 websites link to gamespot.com, each counted once. 28,410 of them (21%) link with nofollow.
Has gamespot.com been audited?
No link placed on gamespot.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: gamespot.com's report is valued, not audited.
How BV is worked out
A followed editorial link from gamespot.com would be worth up to $963 under BV 2.9, before relevance: its Site Strength is 80 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level A (an editorial citation), but 87% of its links are nofollow, so it is worth about $201 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $100 and $251.
- Site Strength
- 80
- Worth up to
- $963
- Usual link type
- Level A — counted · nofollow on 87% of its links → ×0.21
- Relevance to your site
- ×1
- BV score
- $201 per link
- Domain registered
- 13 January 1996
A link from gamespot.com, by link type
A link from gamespot.com at each level. What each level means.
| Level | Factor | Value |
|---|---|---|
| A — Counted | ×1 | $963 |
| B — May be discounted | ×0.5 | $482 |
| C — Usually neutralised | ×0.1 | $96 |
| D — Network | ×0.05 | $48 |
How gamespot.com links out: the full reading
Read by mxverify on 12 November 2026: the homepage and 5 articles (10 linked from its homepage).
Fair sample
Articles read
| Article | Published | Words | Links out | Followed | Says |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phantom Blade Zero - Guides Hub - GameSpot | Oct 2026 | 665 | 1 | 1 | — |
| The Blood Of Dawnwalker - Guides Hub - GameSpot | Sept 2026 | 971 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Best WoW: Forever Addons To Download In 2026 - GameSpot | Nov 2026 | 2,159 | 27 | 0 | — |
| The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Review - A Masterpiece Is Ageless - GameSpot | Nov 2026 | 2,115 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Before GTA Online, GTA 4 Free Mode Was The Best Playground - GameSpot | Nov 2026 | 853 | 2 | 2 | — |
Jev, the model that judges every link in a bklink audit, reads these pages as a site whose links are mostly level A — A 97%, B 1.0%, C 2.0%, 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 12%, B 0.7%, C 86%, D 1.0%.
Traffic in detail
Modelled estimates for Oct 2026, as of 12 November 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself.
| Keyword | Searches / mo | CPC | Ad value / mo | Visits (est.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| resident evil movie | 3.4M | $0.51 | $1.7M | 193.1K |
| gta 6 | 11.1M | $0.21 | $2.3M | 79.8K |
| gamespot | 135K | $1.20 | $162K | 78.3K |
| gamefaqs | 90.5K | $1.18 | $106.8K | 37.1K |
| weather | 506M | $1.46 | $738.8M | 18.5K |
AI assistants
AI assistants sent about 91.3K visits in Oct 2026 — 0.3% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month:
| Assistant | Aug 2026 | Sept 2026 | Oct 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 86% | 56% | 19% |
| Gemini | 11% | 4.8% | 11% |
| Perplexity | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.4% |
gamespot.com's robots.txt asks 7 of the 10 AI crawlers below not to read the site, all of them ones that collect training data.
| 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 | Disallowed |
 Anthropic ClaudeBot | Disallowed |
 Google Google-Extended | Disallowed |
 Apple Applebot-Extended | Disallowed |
 Meta Meta-ExternalAgent | Disallowed |
 ByteDance Bytespider | Disallowed |
 Common Crawl CCBot | Disallowed |
Potential display-ad revenue
$59,000–$240,000a month, estimated
- 94.4M pageviews a month: 28.5M visits × 3.3 pages per visit (Oct 2026)
- Niche: Gaming, from its content category · entertainment and news page RPM $1–$4 per 1,000 pageviews
- 54% of visits from the US, the UK, Canada and Australia; other countries counted at 20% of the rate
Server and network
Its domain was registered in 1996.
mxverify looked up gamespot.com's address: it is served through Cloudflare (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.
Cloudflare (CDN) fronts millions of unrelated sites, so sharing it says nothing about who runs a site.
Where each figure comes from
| Figure | Source | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Backlink value | BV 2.9 | Site Strength × link type; link type from our reading of the site |
| Links placed here | bklink audits | None audited yet |
| How it links out | Read by mxverify | 31 links to other sites in 5 articles, published Sept 2026 – Nov 2026; read 12 Nov 2026 Fair sample |
| Traffic | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Oct 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 12 Nov 2026 |
| Links to this site | Third-party backlink index | 136,746 linking sites, read 12 Nov 2026; one reading a month |
| Authority | 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 | mxverify's DNS and ASN lookup | 162.159.142.170 · Cloudflare (CDN) · a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites |
| Domain age | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 13 Jan 1996 |
| Potential display-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
- 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.
- gamespot.com's visits fell 11% 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.