--- title: "polygon.com Backlink Value & Traffic Report" url: https://mxverify.uk/publications/polygon.com description: "polygon.com: a followed link from it is worth $625 by BV 2.9 (link type B). About 12.3M visits a month, 52% organic. 65,561 websites link to it." site: mxverify generated: 2026-11-13T05:10:54.078Z --- # Backlink 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. Organisation: Polygon: video game news website, owned by Valnet; since 2012. [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7226423?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) · First recorded 12 November 2026 · Last updated 12 November 2026 · [Visit polygon.com](https://polygon.com/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) [Compare](https://mxverify.uk/compare/polygon.com#add) Show polygon.com's BV badge on your site The badge shows what a link from polygon.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. ## Backlink value · what one new followed link from polygon.com is worth to rankings [BV **$625** per link · level B · strength 80](https://bklink.uk/methodology?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report#bv) reading confidence **Fair, 61 out of 100** Reading confidence 61 / 100 - What we read 80 - Our model's certainty 52 - Its view of the pages 69 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](https://mxverify.uk/publications/polygon.com#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. Priced 13 Nov 2026 · pages read 12 Nov 2026. **Relevance to the linked site moves it** **$313** unrelated ×0.5 **$781** same topic ×1.25 **By the kind of link it gives** - A editorial $963 - B guest, sponsored $482 - C neutralised $96 - D network $48 Priced on a blend of link types: A 34% · B 61% · C 5% → ×0.65. [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/polygon.com#bv-detail) · BV 2.9 **[12.3M](https://mxverify.uk/publications/polygon.com#traffic)** monthly visits −4.4% since Aug 2026 **[6.4M](https://mxverify.uk/publications/polygon.com#traffic)** from organic search 52% of visits **[65,561](https://mxverify.uk/publications/polygon.com#links-in)** sites link to it 16,992 of them nofollow **[1992](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/1990s)** domain registered expires Jul 2031 **[1.6 s](https://mxverify.uk/publications/polygon.com#tech)** page load for real users (LCP) passes Core Web Vitals **[$15K–$61K](https://mxverify.uk/publications/polygon.com#ad-revenue)** potential display-ad revenue a month · estimate ## 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. Peers are the most specific group of at least 20 sites on mxverify it belongs to: its topic, its category or its kind of site. Figures are third-party traffic estimates and mxverify's BV, as elsewhere on this report. **Monthly visits** Aug 2026: 12.9M visits; Sept 2026: 13.7M visits; Oct 2026: 12.3M visits **Where visitors come from** Organic search 52%, Direct 33%, Referrals 7.3%, Social 3.8%, Paid 3.0% - [Organic search](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/organic-search) **52%** - [Direct](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/direct) **33%** - [Referrals](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/referrals) **7.3%** - [Social](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/social) **3.8%** - [Paid](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/paid) **3.0%** - Other channels **0.7%** Organic search, in green, is the traffic BV prices on. **Top countries** - [United States](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/united-states) 56% - [United Kingdom](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/united-kingdom) 7.0% - [Canada](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/canada) 4.3% - [Germany](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/germany) 3.2% - [Australia](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/australia) 2.0% - Other countries 28% ## Where it ranks on Google ### On the first page 1 keyword - [cinenerdle 2nd](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/cinenerdle) Google, United States, English, read November 2026 and refreshed monthly by mxverify. Only the keywords mxverify tracks are read, so polygon.com may rank for many others. ## 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. **65,561** websites link to it 16,992 of them with nofollow links **2.3M** links in all, from those websites about 35 per website · first seen 2019 **13** spam score of its links 0–100, the linking pages' average **36,216** IP addresses they link from 15,421 subnets **Where the links sit:** 47% in the article or main content of the linking page, 6.3% in its header, menu, sidebar or footer · 35% in no page section the index could name, the rest in other sections; of the 1.9M links it sorted by where they sit **Pages in Google:** about 166,000 · the count Google gives for a site: search, its own estimate, which can be far off either way What Google shows for site:polygon.com — the first 10 pages 1. [TV](https://www.polygon.com/tv/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) www.polygon.com/tv/ 2. [Polygon Lists](https://www.polygon.com/lists/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) www.polygon.com/lists/ · 16 hours ago 3. [Nintendo](https://www.polygon.com/nintendo/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) www.polygon.com/nintendo/ 4. [What to Watch](https://www.polygon.com/what-to-watch/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) www.polygon.com/what-to-watch/ 5. [Patricia Hernandez](https://www.polygon.com/author/patricia-hernandez/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) www.polygon.com/author/patricia-hernandez/ · 6 hours ago 6. [Game of Thrones](https://www.polygon.com/game-of-thrones/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) www.polygon.com/game-of-thrones/ 7. [Digger's first big twist ruins the movie. The second one ...](https://www.polygon.com/digger-ending-explained-spoilers/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) www.polygon.com/digger-ending-explained-spoilers/ · Oct 1, 2026 8. [2026's trippiest sci-fi anime already feels like an instant cult ...](https://www.polygon.com/false-memory-anime-review/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) www.polygon.com/false-memory-anime-review/ · Aug 10, 2026 9. [Battlefield 6 multiplayer review: Stick to the larger maps](https://www.polygon.com/battlefield-6-multiplayer-review/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) www.polygon.com/battlefield-6-multiplayer-review/ · Oct 15, 2025 10. [Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave](https://www.polygon.com/fire-emblem-fortunes-weave/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) www.polygon.com/fire-emblem-fortunes-weave/ Sources: link counts and spam score from a third-party backlink index, read 12 November 2026; the chart grows by one reading a month; page count and pages from a Google site: search, 12 November 2026. ## Links placed here No link placed on polygon.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 polygon.com is nofollow. It is followed when the site's owner audits polygon.com's own backlinks on bklink.uk, chooses to publish it and proves the site is theirs (for 90 days from each audit), or once a one-time payment of $9 is made for it. [When a link here is followed](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#followed-links) ## How it links out **95%** of its links followed **59** links to other sites **10** articles read Followed 95% Nofollow 5% Fair sample Read 12 Nov 2026 · its homepage offers advertising · [the full reading](https://mxverify.uk/publications/polygon.com#reading) ## Domain and hosting - **Domain registered**: [17 July 1992](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/1990s) - **Registration expires**: 16 July 2031 - **Record last changed**: 19 August 2025 - **Content category**: [gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/gaming) - **Also about**: [News](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/news) · [Entertainment](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/entertainment) · named by its homepage's title and description - **Server address**: 52.2.61.89 - **Hosting network**: Amazon AWS · AS14618 · US ## Tech stack - [Built onWordPress](https://mxverify.uk/publications/cms/wordpress) - [Served byCloudflare](https://mxverify.uk/publications/tech/cloudflare) - [Ad loadAd-heavy · 19 ad networks](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ads/heavy) ### 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 Editorial staff: its about, team and author pages could not be read. A model's reading of those pages ([how](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#newsroom)); BV does not price on it. Structured data: WebSite, Organization, ImageObject. ### Page speed Chrome users, 28 days to 9 Nov 2026: LCP 1.6 s · INP 111 ms · CLS 0.03 — passes Core Web Vitals. Data from the Chrome UX Report (Google), CC BY 4.0. Devices: 75% phone · 23% desktop · 2% tablet — share of Chrome page loads, same 28 days. Sources: homepage read 12 Nov 2026; ad load from a web technology index, 12 Nov 2026. ## Social profiles - [@polygon 1.3M ✓](https://mxverify.uk/publications/social/x) [↗](https://x.com/polygon) - [polygon 754K ✓](https://mxverify.uk/publications/social/facebook) [↗](https://www.facebook.com/polygon) - [@polygondotcom 228K](https://mxverify.uk/publications/social/instagram) [↗](https://www.instagram.com/polygondotcom/) - [user/polygon 1.4M ✓](https://mxverify.uk/publications/social/youtube) [↗](https://www.youtube.com/user/polygon) **Combined followers** 3.7M across 4 profiles | Platform | Followers | On since | Posts / videos | Badge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | X | 1.3M | 2012 | 98,066 posts | | | Facebook | 754K | | | verified badge | | Instagram | 228K | | 3,355 posts | verified badge | | YouTube | 1.4M | 2006 | 4,718 videos | verified badge | **Followers by platform** Followers by platform: X 35%, Facebook 21%, Instagram 6.2%, YouTube 38% - 35% 1.3M - 21% 754K - 6.2% 228K - 38% 1.4M 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. ## Similar sites Matched on the subject the two sites share. Never a site on the same server or network. - [gamespot.com BV $201 · level A · nofollow C Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamespot.com) - [gameinformer.com BV $433 · level A A Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gameinformer.com) - [nme.com BV $597 · level A A Entertainment and celebrity](https://mxverify.uk/publications/nme.com) - [songless.online BV $13 · level C C Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/songless.online) - [dles.gg BV $39 · level C C Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/dles.gg) - [videogameschronicle.com BV $418 · level B B Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/videogameschronicle.com) More like it: [Guest post sites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/level/b) · [High-value backlink sites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/value/500-plus) · [Gaming blogs and game sites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/gaming) · [WordPress websites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/cms/wordpress) · [Old websites from the 90s](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/1990s) How to use this report 3 ways to use these figures - **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. · [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/polygon.com#value) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#use) - **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. · [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/polygon.com#bv-detail) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#levels) - **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. · [Traffic in detail](https://mxverify.uk/publications/polygon.com#traffic) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#traffic) Quick answers about polygon.com 9 questions answered ### 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](https://mxverify.uk/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](https://mxverify.uk/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. Source: [third-party traffic estimate, Oct 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/polygon.com#evidence) ### 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](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux); [web.dev: Web Vitals](https://web.dev/articles/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](https://mxverify.uk/publications/polygon.com#reading); [Google Search Central: qualify your outbound links](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/qualify-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](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9083/) ### 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. Source: [third-party backlink index, Nov 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/polygon.com#evidence) ### 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 Site Strength 80 / 100 · level B · each factor and link type 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** / 100 ([how Site Strength is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report)). Traffic: 6.4M estimated monthly organic visits, as of 12 November 2026. - **Worth up to**: $963 · before relevance — [how it is calculated](https://mxverify.uk/backlink-value#how) - **Usual link type**: Mostly level B — may be discounted · A 34%, B 61%, C 5% → ×0.65 (each level's factor below, weighted by those shares) Read by Jev from our own reading of polygon.com's homepage and 10 articles; 5% 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 ([range in an audit](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report)) - **BV score**: **$625** per link - **Domain registered**: 17 July 1992 · shown for context ([how age is used](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report)) ### A link from polygon.com, by link type A link from polygon.com at each level. [What each level means](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#link-levels). | 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 10 articles read · each link counted Read by mxverify on 12 November 2026: the homepage and 10 articles (10 from across its sitemap). Fair sample 59 links to other sites across 10 articles published in Nov 2026. **Links its articles make to other sites** - Followed 95% - Nofollow 5.1% - Sponsored 0% - User-generated (ugc) 0% 59 links to other sites across 10 articles, share buttons left out. BV counts 5.1% 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** · “Advertising” Runs on WordPress. ### Articles read | Article | Published | Words | Links out | Followed | Says | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Queen’s Domain Review: The Perfect Skyrim Replacement for Right Now](https://www.polygon.com/queens-domain-review/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 1,131 | 4 | 4 | — | | [Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum Officially Wraps Filming](https://www.polygon.com/lord-of-the-rings-hunt-for-gollum-filming-wrapped-announced/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 580 | 7 | 5 | — | | ['GTA 6' Meets 'Heat' in the Most Disappointing Heist Thriller of 2026](https://www.polygon.com/how-to-rob-a-bank-review/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 1,527 | 4 | 4 | — | | [Where are all the rings in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 3?](https://www.polygon.com/rings-of-power-rings-explained/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 1,081 | 4 | 4 | — | | [One of Doctor Who's Best Episodes Just Got Removed, and Fans Aren't Happy](https://www.polygon.com/david-walliams-doctor-who-god-complex/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 523 | 11 | 11 | — | | [Nobody Said The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Was This Funny](https://www.polygon.com/zelda-ocarina-time-remake-funny-moments/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 629 | 10 | 10 | — | | [PlayStation Pulls Back Further From PC With End of PS Plus App](https://www.polygon.com/sony-shuts-down-playstation-plus-pc-app-december-2026/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 396 | 5 | 4 | — | | [Valve Just Added a Huge Feature for Steam Deck Owners](https://www.polygon.com/valve-steam-deck-frames-per-second-average/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 442 | 6 | 6 | — | | [We Need More Games Like Murals](https://www.polygon.com/murals-hands-on-dlala-studios/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 946 | 4 | 4 | — | | [Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power Season 3 Tries Too Hard to Copy Peter Jackson’s Trilogy](https://www.polygon.com/rings-of-power-season-3-review/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | 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%. Jev reads it as a publication (100%), established as a source (57%), and selling guest, sponsored or paid posts (64%). Traffic in detail engagement, top keywords, AI assistants · AI crawler access Modelled estimates for Oct 2026, as of 12 November 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself. - **#6,744** global rank - **#2,415** rank in US - **64%** bounce rate - **1.6** pages per visit - **1m 16s** time on site **Every channel** - [Organic search](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/organic-search) 52% - [Direct](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/direct) 33% - [Referrals](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/referrals) 7.3% - [Social](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/social) 3.8% - AI assistants 0.1% - [Email](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/email) 0.6% - [Paid](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/paid) 3.0% - 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.) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [gta 6](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/gta-6) | 11.1M | $0.21 | $2.3M | 61.2K | | [street fighter movie](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/street-fighter-movie) | 6.1M | $1.14 | $7M | 35.5K | | [crystal lake](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/crystal-lake) | 6.1M | $2.09 | $12.8M | 25.4K | | [visionquest](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/visionquest) | 7.5M | $3.30 | $24.7M | 24.7K | | [avatar seven havens](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/avatar-seven-havens) | 3.4M | $3.54 | $11.9M | 23.3K | Searches, CPC and ad value: Google Ads, worldwide, its latest month, where it has the keyword; † third-party traffic estimates where it does not (the two often differ several times over). 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 **6,163** visits in Oct 2026 — 0.1% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month: [ChatGPT](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ai/chatgpt) [Gemini](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ai/gemini) ChatGPT: Aug 2026 85%, Sept 2026 21%, Oct 2026 6.9%; Gemini: Aug 2026 1.4%, Sept 2026 0%, Oct 2026 2.7% | Assistant | Aug 2026 | Sept 2026 | Oct 2026 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ChatGPT | 85% | 21% | 6.9% | | Gemini | 1.4% | 0% | 2.7% | **AI crawler access** 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 | Read from polygon.com/robots.txt on 12 November 2026. robots.txt is a request that crawlers choose to follow; a site can also refuse crawlers at its server, which this card does not see. Google's AI Overviews use Googlebot, so Google-Extended does not affect them. Third-party traffic estimates. BV uses only the organic-search figure. Potential display-ad revenue $15,000–$61,000 a month (estimate) · what it rests on **$15,000–$61,000** a 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 An estimate from modelled traffic and niche benchmarks, not what the site earns. It does not know which ad networks the site uses, how viewable its ads are or how many a page carries. Not the keyword table's ad value, which is the whole market's search-ad spend. Worked out Nov 2026; worked out again on the 10th of each month. [How it is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/guide#ad-revenue) Server and network 0 other publications on the server · 127 on the 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 9 figures, their sources and dates | Figure | Source | What it covers | | --- | --- | --- | | [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/polygon.com#value) | BV 2.9 | Site Strength × link type; link type from our reading of the site | | [Links placed here](https://mxverify.uk/publications/polygon.com#links) | bklink audits | None audited yet | | [How it links out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/polygon.com#reading) | Read by mxverify | 59 links to other sites in 10 articles, published Nov 2026; read 12 Nov 2026 Fair sample | | [Traffic](https://mxverify.uk/publications/polygon.com#traffic) | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Oct 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 12 Nov 2026 | | [Links to this site](https://mxverify.uk/publications/polygon.com#links-in) | Third-party backlink index | 65,561 linking sites, read 12 Nov 2026; one reading a month | | [Authority](https://mxverify.uk/publications/polygon.com#value) | 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](https://mxverify.uk/publications/polygon.com#server) | mxverify's DNS and ASN lookup | 52.2.61.89 · Amazon AWS | | [Domain age](https://mxverify.uk/publications/polygon.com#hosting) | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 17 Jul 1992 | | [Potential display-ad revenue](https://mxverify.uk/publications/polygon.com#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 2 stated plainly - 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. What each figure means: [How to read a site report](https://mxverify.uk/guide). What every report shares, said once: [how to read a report](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report). 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 12 November 2026 --- Source: mxverify, "polygon.com Backlink Value & Traffic Report", https://mxverify.uk/publications/polygon.com (retrieved 2026-11-13). How every figure is worked out: https://mxverify.uk/methodology