What a link is worthBacklink value and traffic report for polygon.com
In short: A new followed link from polygon.com is worth about $625 to rankings by BV 2.9 (level B, Site Strength 80 of 100). It gets about 12.3M visits a month, 52% from organic search, down 4.4% since Aug 2026. No link placed on it has been audited.
The badge shows what a link from polygon.com is worth, as this report does, and updates by itself. It links to this report.
Backlink value · what one new followed link from polygon.com is worth to rankings
BV$625per link · level B · strength 80reading confidenceFair, 61 out of 100
Reading confidence 61 / 100
10 of 10 pages read had text · 59 links to other sites seen · posts from Nov 2026
How much of polygon.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.
$313 unrelated ×0.5$781 same topic ×1.25
How it compares · among 127 gaming sites on mxverify
- More monthly visits than 89% of the 127 gaming sites on mxverify.
- 52% of its visits come from organic search; the median gaming site gets 42%.
- AI assistants send 0.1% of its visits, about 30% of the 0.2% the median gaming site gets.
- A new followed link from it is worth more than a link from 98% of gaming sites.
- Priced at level B, like 54% of gaming sites; 3% are level A.
- Organic search52%
- Direct33%
- Referrals7.3%
- Social3.8%
- Paid3.0%
- Other channels0.7%
Where it ranks on Google
On the first page 1 keyword
Links to this site
Links other sites have made to polygon.com, from outside link indexes: not the links placed on it that bklink audits.
Where the links sit: 47% in the article or main content of the linking page, 6.3% in its header, menu, sidebar or footer
Pages in Google: about 166,000
What Google shows for site:polygon.com — the first 10 pages
Links placed here
No link placed on polygon.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 95%Nofollow 5%
Domain and hosting
- Domain registered
- 17 July 1992
- Registration expires
- 16 July 2031
- Record last changed
- 19 August 2025
- Content category
- gaming
- Also about
- News · Entertainment
- Server address
- 52.2.61.89
- Hosting network
- Amazon AWS
Tech stack
Publisher signals
- Author bylines: marked up on the homepage
- About page: linked from the homepage
- Editorial policy: linked from the homepage
- Contact page: linked from the homepage
- Named editorial staff: its about, team and author pages could not be read
Page speed
Chrome users, 28 days to 9 Nov 2026: LCP 1.6 s · INP 111 ms · CLS 0.03 — passes Core Web Vitals.
Devices: 75% phone · 23% desktop · 2% tablet — share of Chrome page loads, same 28 days.
Similar sites
How to use this report
- Price check. BV puts one new followed link from polygon.com at $625 (level B), priced on a blend of link types (A 34% · B 61% · C 5%): $313 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $781 to a same-topic site (×1.25). A followed editorial link (level A) would be worth up to $963 before relevance. A quote far above $602 for a level B link pays for what BV does not measure.
- Qualification and risk. Its Site Strength is 80 / 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, 5% of the links to other sites are nofollow, sponsored or ugc. The spam score of its links is 13 (0–100, the linking pages' average), not polygon.com's own.
- Traffic reality check. Set any traffic claim beside the Oct 2026 estimate: 12.3M monthly visits, 52% from organic search (6.4M). Visits fell 4.4% from Aug 2026 to Oct 2026. Its top keyword by Visits (est.) is “gta 6”, about 61.2K a month; the ad value beside it is the whole market's.
Quick answers about polygon.com
What is a link from polygon.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 polygon.com is worth about $625 (level B). Relevance moves it: $313 to an unrelated site, $781 to a same-topic site.
In short: a link from polygon.com is worth about $625 to rankings, up to $781 on the same topic.
Source: mxverify BV 2.9 methodology
Is a link from polygon.com worth placing?
That depends on the kind of link: by BV 2.9, a link from polygon.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 $602 for a level B link pays for something BV does not measure, such as the site's own readers.
Source: mxverify BV 2.9 methodology
How does polygon.com's BV compare with other sites?
At about $625 a link, polygon.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: polygon.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 polygon.com get?
polygon.com gets about 12.3M visits a month (Oct 2026), by a modelled estimate of all its visitors, not analytics measured on the site. 52% of them (6.4M) come from organic search. Visits fell 4.4% from Aug 2026 to Oct 2026.
In short: polygon.com draws about 12.3M visits a month, down 4.4% since Aug 2026.
Does polygon.com pass Core Web Vitals?
Yes: real Chrome users see polygon.com's largest content load in 1.6 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: polygon.com passes Core Web Vitals on real-user data.
Source: Chrome UX Report, 28 days to 9 Nov 2026; web.dev: Web Vitals
Does polygon.com link out with nofollow?
In the 10 articles we read, polygon.com made 59 links to other sites, and 5% of them were nofollow, sponsored or ugc; the other 95% were followed.
Source: mxverify's reading of 10 articles, 12 Nov 2026; Google Search Central: qualify your outbound links
How old is polygon.com?
The domain polygon.com was registered in 1992, 34 years ago.
Source: the public registration record; RFC 9083: RDAP JSON responses
How many sites link to polygon.com?
65,561 websites link to polygon.com, each counted once. 16,992 of them (26%) link with nofollow.
Has polygon.com been audited?
No link placed on polygon.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: polygon.com's report is valued, not audited.
How BV is worked out
A followed editorial link from polygon.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 B, worth about $625 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $313 and $781.
- Site Strength
- 80
- Worth up to
- $963
- Usual link type
- Mostly level B — may be discounted · A 34%, B 61%, C 5% → ×0.65
- Relevance to your site
- ×1
- BV score
- $625 per link
- Domain registered
- 17 July 1992
A link from polygon.com, by link type
A link from polygon.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 polygon.com links out: the full reading
Read by mxverify on 12 November 2026: the homepage and 10 articles (10 from across its sitemap).
Fair sample
- Advertising
Articles read
| Article | Published | Words | Links out | Followed | Says |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Queen’s Domain Review: The Perfect Skyrim Replacement for Right Now | Nov 2026 | 1,131 | 4 | 4 | — |
| Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum Officially Wraps Filming | Nov 2026 | 580 | 7 | 5 | — |
| 'GTA 6' Meets 'Heat' in the Most Disappointing Heist Thriller of 2026 | Nov 2026 | 1,527 | 4 | 4 | — |
| Where are all the rings in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 3? | Nov 2026 | 1,081 | 4 | 4 | — |
| One of Doctor Who's Best Episodes Just Got Removed, and Fans Aren't Happy | Nov 2026 | 523 | 11 | 11 | — |
| Nobody Said The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Was This Funny | Nov 2026 | 629 | 10 | 10 | — |
| PlayStation Pulls Back Further From PC With End of PS Plus App | Nov 2026 | 396 | 5 | 4 | — |
| Valve Just Added a Huge Feature for Steam Deck Owners | Nov 2026 | 442 | 6 | 6 | — |
| We Need More Games Like Murals | Nov 2026 | 946 | 4 | 4 | — |
| Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power Season 3 Tries Too Hard to Copy Peter Jackson’s Trilogy | Nov 2026 | 1,204 | 4 | 4 | — |
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 1.0%, 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 34%, B 61%, C 5.1%, D 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.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gta 6 | 11.1M | $0.21 | $2.3M | 61.2K |
| street fighter movie | 6.1M | $1.14 | $7M | 35.5K |
| crystal lake | 6.1M | $2.09 | $12.8M | 25.4K |
| visionquest | 7.5M | $3.30 | $24.7M | 24.7K |
| avatar seven havens | 3.4M | $3.54 | $11.9M | 23.3K |
AI assistants
AI assistants sent about 6,163 visits in Oct 2026 — 0.1% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month:
polygon.com's robots.txt asks 7 of the 10 AI crawlers below not to read the site, mostly 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 | Disallowed |
| AI trainingCollects text to train AI models | |
 OpenAI GPTBot | Disallowed |
 Anthropic ClaudeBot | Disallowed |
 Google Google-Extended | Disallowed |
 Apple Applebot-Extended | Disallowed |
 Meta Meta-ExternalAgent | Allowed |
 ByteDance Bytespider | Disallowed |
 Common Crawl CCBot | Disallowed |
Potential display-ad revenue
$15,000–$61,000a month, estimated
- 20.2M pageviews a month: 12.3M visits × 1.6 pages per visit (Oct 2026)
- Niche: Gaming, from its content category · entertainment and news page RPM $1–$4 per 1,000 pageviews
- 69% 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 1992.
mxverify looked up polygon.com's address: no other publication in the directory runs on 52.2.61.89. 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.
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 | 59 links to other sites in 10 articles, published 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 | 65,561 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 | 52.2.61.89 · Amazon AWS |
| Domain age | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 17 Jul 1992 |
| 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.
- polygon.com gives more than one kind of link (A 34% · B 61% · C 5%), so BV prices a blend of them: an editorial link there would be worth $963 and a guest or sponsored one $482, before relevance.
Social profiles
Combined followers 3.7M across 4 profiles
Profiles polygon.com names for itself, read 12 Nov 2026 · how these are read
The profiles polygon.com names for itself, in its structured data or linked from its homepage, read 12 Nov 2026. They are the accounts the site points to, not a check of who runs them. A pill opens the sites with a profile on that platform; the arrow opens the profile. Follower counts as of 12 Nov 2026. A tick: the profile's own website field names this site.
Combined followers adds each profile's count: the same person can follow on more than one platform, and YouTube rounds its figure. The donut splits it by platform, each in its brand colour. On since is the year the account began. Posts and videos are all-time totals. A badge is the platform's own mark, not a check by us. All read from each profile page.