---
title: "indiehackers.com backlink value: $90 per link — mxverify"
url: https://mxverify.uk/publications/indiehackers.com
description: "A followed link from indiehackers.com is worth $90 by BV 2.4 (link type C). Not yet audited. Served through Cloudflare (CDN). Domain registered 2015."
site: mxverify
generated: 2026-09-26T16:57:06.025Z
---

mxverify · valued

# Site report: indiehackers.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 2015.

Last updated 26 September 2026 · [Visit indiehackers.com](https://indiehackers.com/)

## Where each figure comes from

| Figure | Source | What it covers |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/indiehackers.com#value) | BV 2.4 | Site Strength × link type; link type from our reading of the site |
| [Links bought here](https://mxverify.uk/publications/indiehackers.com#links) | bklink audits | None audited yet |
| [How it links out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/indiehackers.com#reading) | Read by mxverify | 44 links to other sites in 10 articles, published Sept 2026; read 26 Sept 2026 Fair sample |
| [Traffic](https://mxverify.uk/publications/indiehackers.com#traffic) | TabAPI | Modelled estimates for Aug 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 26 Sept 2026 |
| [Authority](https://mxverify.uk/publications/indiehackers.com#value) | Ahrefs Domain Rating | Half of Site Strength, shown in steps of 5, as of 26 Sept 2026; the rating itself is not shown |
| [Server and network](https://mxverify.uk/publications/indiehackers.com#server) | DNS and ASN registry | 172.67.71.1 · Cloudflare (CDN) · a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites |
| [Domain age](https://mxverify.uk/publications/indiehackers.com#hosting) | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 2 Apr 2015 |

## Backlink value

[BV **$90** per link · level C · strength 70](https://bklink.uk/methodology#bv)

A followed editorial link from indiehackers.com would be worth up to $628 under BV 2.4, before relevance: its Site Strength is 70 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level C, worth about $90 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $45 and $113.

- **Site Strength**: **70** / 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: estimated monthly organic visits, TabAPI, 26 September 2026.
- **Worth up to**: $628 · a followed editorial link at this strength, before relevance (×0.5 unrelated to ×1.25 same topic) — see [how it is calculated](https://mxverify.uk/backlink-value#how)
- **Usual link type**: Mostly level C — usually neutralised · A 1%, B 8%, C 91% → ×0.14 (each level's factor below, weighted by those shares) Read by Jev from our own reading of indiehackers.com's homepage and 10 articles; 14% 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 bought 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**: **$90** per link
- **Domain registered**: 2 April 2015 · shown for context; BV does not price on age

### A link from indiehackers.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 indiehackers.com links out

Read by mxverify on 26 September 2026: the homepage and 10 articles (10 linked from its homepage). This is our own reading of the site, not a vendor's figure, and it is what places a new link on the A–D scale until links bought here are audited.

Fair sample 44 links to other sites across 10 articles published in Sept 2026. Strong takes six or more articles and thirty or more links, spread over at least two months where the articles are dated.

**Links its articles make to other sites**

- Followed 86%
- Nofollow 14%
- Sponsored 0%
- User-generated (ugc) 0%

44 links to other sites across 10 articles, share buttons left out. BV counts 14% of a new link's weight at most C, because that share of the site's own links is nofollow, sponsored or ugc.

**What its homepage offers**

- **Write for us / guest posts** · “Submit a Post to Indie Hackers”
- **Advertising** · “Advertise on Indie Hackers”

### Articles read

| Article | Published | Words | Links out | Followed | Says |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [What I'm learning while building an evidence-to-action workflow - Indie Hackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/what-im-learning-while-building-an-evidence-to-action-workflow-1ed982fb13) | Sept 2026 | 7,300 | 1 | 1 | — |
| [How much time do you spend on your brand name, not only on your product? - Indie Hackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-much-time-do-you-spend-on-your-brand-name-not-only-on-your-product-9f85ecf90d) | Sept 2026 | 4,404 | 6 | 6 | — |
| [3 sales, 2 countries: The reality of building a "sell-once" logo marketplace solo - Indie Hackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/3-sales-2-countries-the-reality-of-building-a-sell-once-logo-marketplace-solo-80240c570d) | Sept 2026 | 6,973 | 3 | 3 | — |
| [I’m trying to grow a mobile app without relying on paid ads. Here’s my experiment. - Indie Hackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/i-m-trying-to-grow-a-mobile-app-without-relying-on-paid-ads-here-s-my-experiment-6ceb572f66) | Sept 2026 | 7,103 | 4 | 4 | — |
| [Shared resumes were a dead end, so I gave them a preview card and a way back - Indie Hackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/shared-resumes-were-a-dead-end-so-i-gave-them-a-preview-card-and-a-way-back-f6ed2afec7) | Sept 2026 | 1,360 | 0 | 0 | — |
| [I built an AI visibility tracker, then stopped using it myself - Indie Hackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/i-built-an-ai-visibility-tracker-then-stopped-using-it-myself-f981061340) | Sept 2026 | 8,782 | 7 | 3 | — |
| [I built a global chat. Now I have to solve the empty room problem. - Indie Hackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/i-built-a-global-chat-now-i-have-to-solve-the-empty-room-problem-afd99e4349) | Sept 2026 | 4,842 | 3 | 2 | — |
| [Meta locked out all four of my channels in three days. Today I launch what I built from that. - Indie Hackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/meta-locked-out-all-four-of-my-channels-in-three-days-today-i-launch-what-i-built-from-that-78b2386235) | Sept 2026 | 11,687 | 11 | 10 | — |
| [Buying Chess.com for $56k and growing it to $200M in annual revenue - Indie Hackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/creators/buying-chess-com-for-56k-and-growing-it-to-200m-in-annual-revenue-GkkdbA1ibyb3KUxKhFyT) | Sept 2026 | 5,217 | 4 | 4 | — |
| [From weekend project to $1M MRR in two years - Indie Hackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/tech/from-weekend-project-to-1m-mrr-in-two-years-YRaa1QlGTjaqh0XgzWkc) | Sept 2026 | 3,995 | 5 | 5 | — |

Jev, the model that judges every link in a bklink audit, reads these pages as a site whose links are mostly level **A** — A 90%, B 7.0%, C 3.0%, 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 1.3%, B 7.9%, C 91%, D 0%.

Jev reads it as a platform where users post (89%), established as a source (81%), and selling guest, sponsored or paid posts (81%).

## Traffic

Modelled estimates by TabAPI for Aug 2026, as of 26 September 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself.

- **740.3K** monthly visits −1.9% since Jun 2026
- **257.2K** from organic search 35% of visits
- **#70,175** global rank
- **#88,757** rank in US

- **49%** bounce rate
- **2.8** pages per visit
- **2m 07s** time on site

**Monthly visits**

Jun 2026: 754.8K visits; Jul 2026: 780K visits; Aug 2026: 740.3K visits

**Where visitors come from**

- Organic search 35%
- Direct 50%
- Referrals 4.3%
- Social 4.2%
- AI assistants 3.0%
- Email 3.5%
- Paid 0.7%
- Affiliate and other 0%

Share of all visits. Organic search is highlighted: it is the traffic BV prices on.

**Top countries**

- United States 15%
- India 14%
- United Kingdom 6.8%
- Uzbekistan 6.2%
- Germany 5.5%
- Other countries 52%

**Top search keywords**

| Keyword | Searches / mo | CPC | Traffic value |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [indie hackers](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/indie-hackers) | 46K | $3.10 | $66.4K |
| [samehadaku](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/samehadaku) | 464.5K | $0.31 | $25.7K |
| [indiehackers](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/indiehackers) | 10.7K | $5.14 | $16.6K |
| [indie hacker](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/indie-hacker) | 5,860 | $5.45 | $6,420 |
| [serp insight blogroll](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/serp-insight-blogroll) | 7,920 | $0.00 | $5,110 |

Traffic value: what the keyword's visits would cost as search ads, per month. Each keyword opens the list of sites where it is a top search keyword.

### AI assistants

AI assistants sent about **22.2K** visits in Aug 2026 — 3.0% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month:

ChatGPT Gemini Perplexity

ChatGPT: Jun 2026 87%, Jul 2026 68%, Aug 2026 63%; Gemini: Jun 2026 4.8%, Jul 2026 6.8%, Aug 2026 8.1%; Perplexity: Jun 2026 0.9%, Jul 2026 0.9%, Aug 2026 1.4%

| Assistant | Jun 2026 | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ChatGPT | 87% | 68% | 63% |
| Gemini | 4.8% | 6.8% | 8.1% |
| Perplexity | 0.9% | 0.9% | 1.4% |

Traffic estimates by TabAPI. BV uses only the organic-search figure.

## Links bought here

No link bought on indiehackers.com has been audited yet. [An audit on bklink.uk](https://bklink.uk/) checks each one — still there, followed or not, where it sits — and marks this report audited.

## Hosting

- **Server address**: 172.67.71.1 · CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites
- **Hosting network**: Cloudflare (CDN) · AS13335
- **Server country**: US
- **Domain registered**: 02 April 2015

## Server and network

indiehackers.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.

- **CDN** edge address, not a server
- **547** on the same hosting network

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.

## 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 indiehackers.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.

Compiled from [bklink.uk](https://bklink.uk/) audits · maintained by [Palash Bagchi](https://mxverify.uk/about) · updated 26 September 2026

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Source: mxverify, "indiehackers.com backlink value: $90 per link — mxverify", https://mxverify.uk/publications/indiehackers.com (retrieved 2026-09-26). How every figure is worked out: https://mxverify.uk/methodology