--- title: "Backlink Value & Traffic Report for makeuseof.com" url: https://mxverify.uk/publications/makeuseof.com description: "A followed link from makeuseof.com is worth $299 by BV 2.8 (link type B). Not yet audited. Hosted on Amazon AWS (US). Domain registered 2006." site: mxverify generated: 2026-10-21T13:18:55.734Z --- mxverify · valued # Backlink value and traffic report for makeuseof.com Its domain was registered in 2006. **In short:** A new followed link from makeuseof.com is worth about $299 to rankings by BV 2.8 (level B, Site Strength 75 of 100); BV is an estimate, not a price anyone charges. It gets about 5.5M visits a month, 32% from organic search, down 9.9% since Jul 2026. No link placed on it has been audited. Last updated 21 October 2026 · [Visit makeuseof.com](https://makeuseof.com/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) [Compare](https://mxverify.uk/compare/makeuseof.com#add) Show makeuseof.com's BV badge on your site The badge shows what a link from makeuseof.com is worth, as this report does, and updates by itself. It links to this report. Embed code (HTML) Copied Paste it where the badge should appear. It is a plain link and image: no script runs on your site. ## Backlink value · what one new followed link from makeuseof.com is worth to rankings [BV **$299** per link · level B · strength 75](https://bklink.uk/methodology?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report#bv) **Relevance to the linked site moves it** **$150** unrelated ×0.5 **$374** 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 1% · B 70% · C 30% → ×0.38. [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/makeuseof.com#bv-detail) · BV 2.8 · not a price anyone charges **5.5M** monthly visits −9.9% since Jul 2026 **1.7M** from organic search 32% of visits **#14,545** global rank **[2006](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/2000s)** domain registered 20 years ago **[2.0 s](https://mxverify.uk/publications/makeuseof.com#tech)** page load for real users (LCP) passes Core Web Vitals **[30%](https://mxverify.uk/publications/makeuseof.com#reading)** of its own links nofollow in the articles we read More like it: [Guest post sites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/level/b) · [Backlink sites worth $250 to $499 a link](https://mxverify.uk/publications/value/250-499) · [Technology websites and tech blogs](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/technology) · [WordPress websites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/cms/wordpress) · [2000s websites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/2000s) **Monthly visits** Jul 2026: 6.1M visits; Aug 2026: 5.1M visits; Sept 2026: 5.5M visits **Where visitors come from** Direct 40%, Organic search 32%, Referrals 11%, Paid 10%, Social 4.7% - Direct **40%** - Organic search **32%** - Referrals **11%** - Paid **10%** - Social **4.7%** - Other channels **2.5%** Organic search, in green, is the traffic BV prices on. **Top countries** - United States 55% - United Kingdom 6.4% - Canada 5.6% - India 2.8% - Australia 2.7% - Other countries 27% ## Links to this site Link counts for makeuseof.com are fetched at the next daily update, usually by 05:00 UTC, and shown here from then. ## Links placed here No link placed on makeuseof.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 makeuseof.com is nofollow. It is followed only when the site's owner audits makeuseof.com's own backlinks on bklink.uk, chooses to publish it and proves the site is theirs — for 90 days from each audit. [When a link here is followed](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#followed-links) ## How it links out **70%** of its links followed **37** links to other sites **10** articles read Followed 70% Nofollow 19% Sponsored 11% Strong sample Read 21 Oct 2026 · its homepage offers advertising · [the full reading](https://mxverify.uk/publications/makeuseof.com#reading) ## Tech stack - [Built onWordPress](https://mxverify.uk/publications/cms/wordpress) ### Page speed Chrome users, 28 days to 19 Oct 2026: LCP 2.0 s · INP 138 ms · CLS 0.04 — passes Core Web Vitals. Source: Chrome UX Report (Google), CC BY 4.0. ## Domain and hosting - **Domain registered**: [03 July 2006](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/2000s) - **Content category**: [technology](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/technology) - **Server address**: 54.157.137.27 - **Hosting network**: Amazon AWS · AS14618 · US How to use this report 3 ways to use these figures - **Price check.** BV puts one new followed link from makeuseof.com at $299 (level B), priced on a blend of link types (A 1% · B 70% · C 30%): $150 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $374 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 $486 for a level B link pays for what BV does not measure. · [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/makeuseof.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 B — may be discounted (a guest, sponsored or listed link). In the 10 articles we read, 30% of the links to other sites are nofollow, sponsored or ugc. · [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/makeuseof.com#bv-detail) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#levels) - **Traffic reality check.** Set any traffic claim beside the Sept 2026 estimate: 5.5M monthly visits, 32% from organic search (1.7M). Visits fell 9.9% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. Its top keyword by Visits (est.) is “open youtube”, about 3,340 a month; the ad value beside it is the whole market's. · [Traffic in detail](https://mxverify.uk/publications/makeuseof.com#traffic) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#traffic) What each figure means, and what it cannot tell you: [How to read a site report](https://mxverify.uk/guide). Quick answers about makeuseof.com 8 questions answered ### What is a link from makeuseof.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 makeuseof.com is worth about $299 (level B). Relevance moves it: $150 to an unrelated site, $374 to a same-topic site. BV is an estimate of ranking value, not a price anyone charges. In short: a link from makeuseof.com is worth about $299 to rankings, up to $374 on the same topic. Source: [mxverify BV 2.8 methodology](https://mxverify.uk/methodology) ### Is a link from makeuseof.com worth placing? That depends on the kind of link: by BV 2.8, a link from makeuseof.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 $486 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](https://mxverify.uk/methodology) ### How does makeuseof.com's BV compare with other sites? At about $299 a link, makeuseof.com is in the “$250 to $499” value band, with 102 of the 3,384 sites valued on mxverify. 23 sites are in a higher band. The counts are mxverify's own, taken from its directory at the last daily update. In short: 23 of the 3,384 valued sites sit in a higher value band than makeuseof.com. Source: mxverify's own directory, counted at the last daily update ### How much traffic does makeuseof.com get? makeuseof.com gets about 5.5M visits a month (Sept 2026), by a modelled estimate of all its visitors, not analytics measured on the site. 32% of them (1.7M) come from organic search. Visits fell 9.9% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. In short: makeuseof.com draws about 5.5M visits a month, down 9.9% since Jul 2026. Source: [third-party traffic estimate, Sept 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/makeuseof.com#evidence) ### Does makeuseof.com pass Core Web Vitals? Yes: real Chrome users see makeuseof.com's largest content load in 2.0 s (LCP), and every vital reported for it is 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: makeuseof.com passes Core Web Vitals on real-user data. Source: [Chrome UX Report, 28 days to 19 Oct 2026](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux); [web.dev: Web Vitals](https://web.dev/articles/vitals) ### Does makeuseof.com link out with nofollow? In the 10 articles we read, makeuseof.com made 37 links to other sites, and 30% of them were nofollow, sponsored or ugc; the other 70% were followed. BV prices a nofollow link at level C (×0.1), whatever the site is otherwise worth. In short: about 30% of makeuseof.com's outbound links are nofollow, so a new link placed there may be too. Source: [mxverify's reading of 10 articles, 21 Oct 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/makeuseof.com#reading); [Google Search Central: qualify your outbound links](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/qualify-outbound-links) ### How old is makeuseof.com? The domain makeuseof.com was registered in 2006, 20 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](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9083/) ### Has makeuseof.com been audited? No link placed on makeuseof.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: makeuseof.com's report is valued, not audited. How BV is worked out Site Strength 75 / 100 · level B · each factor and link type A followed editorial link from makeuseof.com would be worth up to $778 under BV 2.8, before relevance: its Site Strength is 75 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level B, worth about $299 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $150 and $374. - **Site Strength**: **75** / 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: 1.7M estimated monthly organic visits, as of 21 October 2026. - **Worth up to**: $778 · 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 B — may be discounted · A 1%, B 70%, C 30% → ×0.38 (each level's factor below, weighted by those shares) Read by Jev from our own reading of makeuseof.com's homepage and 10 articles; 30% 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**: **$299** per link - **Domain registered**: 3 July 2006 · 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 makeuseof.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 | $778 | | B — May be discounted | A guest, sponsored or placed article, or a product or tool directory listing. | ×0.5 | $389 | | C — Usually neutralised | A press release or syndicated copy, a forum post, profile, footer or sidebar link — and any nofollow link. | ×0.1 | $78 | | D — Network | A site on a server whose sites show footprints of one owner, a link farm, or machine-generated pages. | ×0.05 | $39 | How makeuseof.com links out: the full reading 10 articles read · each link counted Read by mxverify on 21 October 2026: the homepage and 10 articles (9 from across its sitemap, 1 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 placed here are audited. Strong sample 37 links to other sites across 10 articles published Jan 2025 – Oct 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 70% - Nofollow 19% - Sponsored 11% - User-generated (ugc) 0% 37 links to other sites across 10 articles, share buttons left out. BV counts 30% 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** - **Advertising** · “Our Audience”, “Advertising” Runs on WordPress. ### Articles read | Article | Published | Words | Links out | Followed | Says | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Google Drive is so much more than cloud storage to me — here are 6 unconventional uses](https://www.makeuseof.com/google-drive-unconventional-uses/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Oct 2026 | 1,278 | 2 | 1 | — | | [Google's new Fitbit Edge has me questioning what a smartwatch should be](https://www.makeuseof.com/google-fitbit-edge-hands-on/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Oct 2026 | 1,375 | 3 | 2 | — | | [Virtualization isn't emulation, and it took installing Proxmox for me to really understand the difference](https://www.makeuseof.com/virtualization-isnt-emulation-and-it-took-installing-proxmox-for-me-to-really-understand-the-difference/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Oct 2026 | 1,111 | 1 | 1 | — | | [Amazon's most generous Kindle freebies in months just dropped for Prime members](https://www.makeuseof.com/amazons-octobers-kindle-freebies-include-two-5-star-gems-you-shouldnt-miss/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Oct 2026 | 683 | 2 | 2 | — | | [Check Out These 6 Sites to Find Unique Valentine's Day Gifts](https://www.makeuseof.com/best-sites-unique-valentines-day-gifts/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Jan 2025 | 919 | 7 | 7 | — | | [The 9 Biggest Problems With DALL-E](https://www.makeuseof.com/dall-e-problems/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Jan 2025 | 1,311 | 1 | 1 | — | | [How I Use My Stream Deck to Control Zoom and Discord Calls](https://www.makeuseof.com/stream-deck-setup-for-calls/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Jan 2025 | 927 | 6 | 5 | — | | [The 5 Best Google Sheets Add-ons for Easier Data Analysis](https://www.makeuseof.com/best-google-sheets-add-ons-for-data-analysis/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | — | 971 | 7 | 6 | — | | [Work With Us \| MakeUseOf](https://www.makeuseof.com/work-with-us/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | — | 1,613 | 0 | 0 | — | | [SpeakON's MagSafe AI communicator turns spoken ideas into action](https://www.makeuseof.com/speakon-magsafe-ai-communicator/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Oct 2026 | 1,335 | 8 | 1 | sponsored or contributed | Jev, the model that judges every link in a bklink audit, reads these pages as a site whose links are mostly level **B** — A 28%, B 72%, C 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 0.8%, B 70%, C 30%, D 0%. Jev reads it as a publication (100%), established as a source (94%), and selling guest, sponsored or paid posts (96%). Traffic in detail engagement, top keywords, AI assistants Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, as of 21 October 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself. - **#14,545** global rank - **#5,504** rank in US - **67%** bounce rate - **1.6** pages per visit - **1m 11s** time on site **Every channel** - Organic search 32% - Direct 40% - Referrals 11% - Social 4.7% - AI assistants 0.3% - Email 2.2% - Paid 10% - Affiliate and other 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.) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [makeuseof](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/makeuseof) | 6,450 | $0.00 | $0 | 7,880 | | [open youtube](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/open-youtube) | 103.2K | $0.21 | $21.7K | 3,340 | | [famelack](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/famelack) | 104.7K | $0.45 | $47.1K | 3,190 | | [make use of](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/make-use-of) | 4,930 | $0.00 | $0 | 2,820 | | [google lens](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/google-lens) | 1.1M | $0.53 | $605.6K | 2,380 | 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 **18.2K** visits in Sept 2026 — 0.3% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month: Gemini ChatGPT Claude Gemini: Jul 2026 40%, Aug 2026 53%, Sept 2026 29%; ChatGPT: Jul 2026 25%, Aug 2026 26%, Sept 2026 24%; Claude: Jul 2026 6.8%, Aug 2026 21%, Sept 2026 0.9% | Assistant | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 | Sept 2026 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Gemini | 40% | 53% | 29% | | ChatGPT | 25% | 26% | 24% | | Claude | 6.8% | 21% | 0.9% | Third-party traffic estimates. BV uses only the organic-search figure. Server and network 0 other publications on the server · 127 on the network No other publication in the directory runs on 54.157.137.27. 127 publications are on the same hosting network (Amazon AWS, AS14618) — a cloud platform hosting millions of unrelated sites, so that is no sign of a connection. Amazon AWS is a cloud platform hosting 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 7 figures, their sources and dates | Figure | Source | What it covers | | --- | --- | --- | | [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/makeuseof.com#value) | BV 2.8 | Site Strength × link type; link type from our reading of the site | | [Links placed here](https://mxverify.uk/publications/makeuseof.com#links) | bklink audits | None audited yet | | [How it links out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/makeuseof.com#reading) | Read by mxverify | 37 links to other sites in 10 articles, published Jan 2025 – Oct 2026; read 21 Oct 2026 Strong sample | | [Traffic](https://mxverify.uk/publications/makeuseof.com#traffic) | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 21 Oct 2026 | | [Authority](https://mxverify.uk/publications/makeuseof.com#value) | 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](https://mxverify.uk/publications/makeuseof.com#server) | DNS and ASN registry | 54.157.137.27 · Amazon AWS | | [Domain age](https://mxverify.uk/publications/makeuseof.com#hosting) | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 3 Jul 2006 | Limitations: what this report does not show 5 stated plainly - No link on this publication has been audited yet, so nothing here describes how its links behave. - 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 makeuseof.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. - makeuseof.com gives more than one kind of link (A 1% · B 70% · C 30%), so BV prices a blend of them: an editorial link there would be worth $778 and a guest or sponsored one $389, before relevance. 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 21 October 2026 --- Source: mxverify, "Backlink Value & Traffic Report for makeuseof.com", https://mxverify.uk/publications/makeuseof.com (retrieved 2026-10-21). How every figure is worked out: https://mxverify.uk/methodology