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Backlink value and traffic report for inc42.com
It is served through Cloudflare (CDN), a content delivery network, so its address is shared edge infrastructure and says nothing about who runs it. Its domain was registered in 2012.
In short: A new followed link from inc42.com is worth about $314 to rankings by BV 2.8 (level B, Site Strength 70 of 100); BV is an estimate, not a price anyone charges. It gets about 1.1M visits a month, 40% from organic search, up 34% since Jul 2026. No link placed on it has been audited.
Backlink value · what one new followed link from inc42.com is worth to rankings
$157 unrelated ×0.5$393 same topic ×1.25
- Direct45%
- Organic search40%
- Social6.0%
- Referrals3.9%
- AI assistants2.9%
- Other channels2.2%
Links to this site
Links other sites have made to inc42.com, from outside link indexes: not the links placed on it that bklink audits.
Where the links sit: 13% in the article or main content of the linking page, 10% in its header, menu, sidebar or footer
Pages in Google: about 326,000
What Google shows for site:inc42.com — the first 10 pages
- Inc42 AIQ: Build AI Systems for Marketing & Sales in 1 Day
- Meet The Authors Behind Inc42
- Inc42 Community: Sign in
- Inc42 Academy – Learn How To Build & Scale Your Startup
- Continue Your Membership Privileges And Benefits
- Inc42 BrandLabs: BrandLabs by Inc42
- Awiros — Funding, Revenue & Investors (2026)
- Zostel — Funding, Revenue & Investors (2026)
- Team Inc42 - Author on Inc42 Media
- Networking Event For The Folks Of Indian Startup Ecosystem
Links placed here
No link placed on inc42.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
inc42.com did not let our reader in on 21 Oct 2026, so its link type is set by fixed rules until a later reading succeeds.
Tech stack
Page speed
Chrome users, 28 days to 19 Oct 2026: LCP 2.5 s · INP 161 ms · CLS 0.24 — does not pass Core Web Vitals.
Domain and hosting
- Domain registered
- 11 June 2012
- Server address
- 172.67.75.188
- Hosting network
- Cloudflare (CDN)
Similar sites
How to use this report
- Price check. BV puts one new followed link from inc42.com at $314 (level B): $157 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $393 to a same-topic site (×1.25). A followed editorial link (level A) would be worth up to $628 before relevance. A quote far above $393 for a level B link pays for what BV does not measure.
- Qualification and risk. Its Site Strength is 70 / 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 9 (0–100, the linking pages' average), not inc42.com's own.
- Traffic reality check. Set any traffic claim beside the Sept 2026 estimate: 1.1M monthly visits, 40% from organic search (431.3K). Visits rose 34% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. Its top keyword by Visits (est.) is “flipkart”, about 240K a month; the ad value beside it is the whole market's.
- AI assistant visits. 2.9% of its visits in Sept 2026 came from AI assistants' answers, about 30.7K (visits, not citations); ChatGPT sent the most in Sept 2026, 79% of them.
Quick answers about inc42.com
What is a link from inc42.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 inc42.com is worth about $314 (level B). Relevance moves it: $157 to an unrelated site, $393 to a same-topic site. BV is an estimate of ranking value, not a price anyone charges.
In short: a link from inc42.com is worth about $314 to rankings, up to $393 on the same topic.
Source: mxverify BV 2.8 methodology
Is a link from inc42.com worth placing?
That depends on the kind of link: by BV 2.8, a link from inc42.com is worth $628 as an editorial citation (level A), $314 as a guest, sponsored or listed link (level B), $63 as a press-release, syndicated, profile or forum link (level C), $31 as a network link (level D), before relevance. A price far above $393 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
How does inc42.com's BV compare with other sites?
At about $314 a link, inc42.com is in the “$250 to $499” value band, with 118 of the 3,466 sites valued on mxverify. 25 sites are in a higher band. The counts are mxverify's own, taken from its directory at the last daily update.
In short: 25 of the 3,466 valued sites sit in a higher value band than inc42.com.
Source: mxverify's own directory, counted at the last daily update
How much traffic does inc42.com get?
inc42.com gets about 1.1M visits a month (Sept 2026), by a modelled estimate of all its visitors, not analytics measured on the site. 40% of them (431.3K) come from organic search. Visits rose 34% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026.
In short: inc42.com draws about 1.1M visits a month, up 34% since Jul 2026.
Does inc42.com pass Core Web Vitals?
No: real Chrome users see inc42.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: inc42.com does not pass Core Web Vitals on real-user data.
Source: Chrome UX Report, 28 days to 19 Oct 2026; web.dev: Web Vitals
How old is inc42.com?
The domain inc42.com was registered in 2012, 14 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
How many sites link to inc42.com?
18,136 websites link to inc42.com, each counted once. 3,588 of them (20%) link with nofollow.
Has inc42.com been audited?
No link placed on inc42.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: inc42.com's report is valued, not audited.
How BV is worked out
A followed editorial link from inc42.com would be worth up to $628 under BV 2.8, before relevance: its Site Strength is 70 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level B, worth about $314 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $157 and $393.
- Site Strength
- 70
- Worth up to
- $628
- Usual link type
- Level B — may be discounted → ×0.5
- Relevance to your site
- ×1
- BV score
- $314 per link
- Domain registered
- 11 June 2012
A link from inc42.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 | $628 |
| B — May be discounted | A guest, sponsored or placed article, or a product or tool directory listing. | ×0.5 | $314 |
| C — Usually neutralised | A press release or syndicated copy, a forum post, profile, footer or sidebar link — and any nofollow link. | ×0.1 | $63 |
| D — Network | A site on a server whose sites show footprints of one owner, a link farm, or machine-generated pages. | ×0.05 | $31 |
How inc42.com links out: the full reading
We could not read inc42.com's pages when it was valued on 21 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
Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, as of 21 October 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself.
AI assistants
AI assistants sent about 30.7K visits in Sept 2026 — 2.9% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month:
ChatGPTClaudePerplexity
| Assistant | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 | Sept 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 51% | 62% | 79% |
| Claude | 8.5% | 6.2% | 8.8% |
| Perplexity | 5.0% | 6.0% | 6.3% |
Server and network
inc42.com 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. The count is shown; the sites are not listed.
Where each figure comes from
| Figure | Source | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Backlink value | BV 2.8 | Site Strength × link type; link type at the default until the site is read or audited |
| Links placed here | bklink audits | None audited yet |
| How it links out | Read by mxverify | The site did not let our reader in (21 Oct 2026) |
| Traffic | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 21 Oct 2026 |
| Links to this site | Third-party backlink index | 18,136 linking sites, read 22 Oct 2026; one reading a month |
| Authority | Ahrefs Domain Rating | Half of Site Strength, shown in steps of 5, as of 21 Oct 2026; the rating itself is not shown |
| Server and network | DNS and ASN registry | 172.67.75.188 · Cloudflare (CDN) · a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites |
| Domain age | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 11 Jun 2012 |
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.
- 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 inc42.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.