--- title: "Backlink Value & Traffic Report for startupdope.com" url: https://mxverify.uk/publications/startupdope.com description: "startupdope.com: a followed link from it is worth $50 by BV 2.9 (link type B). Not yet audited. Served through Cloudflare (CDN). Domain registered 2013." site: mxverify generated: 2026-11-02T12:26:50.039Z --- mxverify · valued # Backlink value and traffic report for startupdope.com **In short:** A new followed link from startupdope.com is worth about $50 to rankings by BV 2.9 (level B, Site Strength 30 of 100); BV is an estimate, not a price anyone charges. It gets about 3,920 visits a month, 37% from organic search, up 56% since Jul 2026. No link placed on it has been audited. First recorded 02 November 2026 · Last updated 02 November 2026 · [Visit startupdope.com](https://startupdope.com/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) [Compare](https://mxverify.uk/compare/startupdope.com#add) Show startupdope.com's BV badge on your site The badge shows what a link from startupdope.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 startupdope.com is worth to rankings [BV **$50** per link · level B · strength 30](https://bklink.uk/methodology?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report#bv) reading confidence **High, 94 out of 100** Reading confidence 94 / 100 - What we read 100 - Our model's certainty 82 - Its view of the pages 99 10 of 10 pages read had text · 31 links to other sites seen · posts Nov 2014 – Jun 2026 How much of startupdope.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/startupdope.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 2 Nov 2026 · pages read 2 Nov 2026. **Relevance to the linked site moves it** **$25** unrelated ×0.5 **$63** same topic ×1.25 **By the kind of link it gives** - A editorial $114 - B guest, sponsored $57 - C neutralised $11 - D network $5.68 Priced on a blend of link types: A 2% · B 81% · C 10% · D 6% → ×0.44. [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/startupdope.com#bv-detail) · BV 2.9 · not a price anyone charges **[3,920](https://mxverify.uk/publications/startupdope.com#traffic)** monthly visits +56% since Jul 2026 **[1,450](https://mxverify.uk/publications/startupdope.com#traffic)** from organic search 37% of visits **[#4,128,279](https://mxverify.uk/publications/startupdope.com#traffic)** global rank **[2013](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/2010s)** domain registered 13 years ago **[6%](https://mxverify.uk/publications/startupdope.com#reading)** of its own links nofollow in the articles we read ## In its own words > Startup Dope is a leading technology journalism publication and software intelligence directory. Founded in 2014, Startup Dope reports on early-stage startups, artificial intelligence architectures, enterprise developer tooling, and global tech ecosystems. From startupdope.com's [llms.txt](https://startupdope.com/llms.txt?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report), the file a site publishes to describe itself to AI assistants, fetched 2 November 2026. The words are the site's own; mxverify has not checked them. Its file lists 3 sections: Editorial Coverage & Indexes, Information For Language Models & Crawlers, Content Policies & Legal. More like it: [Guest post sites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/level/b) · [Backlink sites worth $50 to $99 a link](https://mxverify.uk/publications/value/50-99) · [Technology write for us sites and tech blogs](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/technology) · [WordPress websites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/cms/wordpress) · [2010s websites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/2010s) **Monthly visits** Jul 2026: 2,508 visits; Aug 2026: 2,026 visits; Sept 2026: 3,920 visits **Where visitors come from** Organic search 37%, Direct 36%, Referrals 9.0%, Social 6.1%, Paid 5.4% - [Organic search](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/organic-search) **37%** - [Direct](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/direct) **36%** - [Referrals](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/referrals) **9.0%** - [Social](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/social) **6.1%** - [Paid](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/paid) **5.4%** - Other channels **6.8%** Organic search, in green, is the traffic BV prices on. **Top countries** - [United States](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/united-states) 72% - [India](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/india) 28% ## Links to this site Link counts for startupdope.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 startupdope.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 startupdope.com is nofollow. It is followed when the site's owner audits startupdope.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 **94%** of its links followed **31** links to other sites **10** articles read Followed 94% Sponsored 6% Strong sample Read 2 Nov 2026 · [the full reading](https://mxverify.uk/publications/startupdope.com#reading) ## Tech stack - [Built onWordPress](https://mxverify.uk/publications/cms/wordpress) ## Domain and hosting - **Domain registered**: [24 January 2013](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/2010s) - **Content category**: [technology](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/technology) - **Server address**: 172.67.143.31 · CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites - **Hosting network**: Cloudflare (CDN) · AS13335 · US How to use this report 3 ways to use these figures - **Price check.** BV puts one new followed link from startupdope.com at $50 (level B), priced on a blend of link types (A 2% · B 81% · C 10% · D 6%): $25 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $63 to a same-topic site (×1.25). A followed editorial link (level A) would be worth up to $114 before relevance. A quote far above $71 for a level B link pays for what BV does not measure. · [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/startupdope.com#value) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#use) - **Qualification and risk.** Its Site Strength is 30 / 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, 6% of the links to other sites are nofollow, sponsored or ugc. · [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/startupdope.com#bv-detail) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#levels) - **Traffic reality check.** Set any traffic claim beside the Sept 2026 estimate: 3,920 monthly visits, 37% from organic search (1,450). Visits rose 56% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. Its top keyword by Visits (est.) is “taskmagic”, about 10 a month; the ad value beside it is the whole market's. · [Traffic in detail](https://mxverify.uk/publications/startupdope.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 startupdope.com 7 questions answered ### What is a link from startupdope.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 startupdope.com is worth about $50 (level B). Relevance moves it: $25 to an unrelated site, $63 to a same-topic site. In short: a link from startupdope.com is worth about $50 to rankings, up to $63 on the same topic. Source: [mxverify BV 2.9 methodology](https://mxverify.uk/methodology) ### Is a link from startupdope.com worth placing? That depends on the kind of link: by BV 2.9, a link from startupdope.com is worth $114 as an editorial citation (level A), $57 as a guest, sponsored or listed link (level B), $11 as a press-release, syndicated, profile or forum link (level C), $5.68 as a network link (level D), before relevance. A price far above $71 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 startupdope.com's BV compare with other sites? At about $50 a link, startupdope.com is in the “$50 to $99” value band, with 353 of the 4,052 sites valued on mxverify. 488 sites are in a higher band. In short: 488 of the 4,052 valued sites sit in a higher value band than startupdope.com. Source: mxverify's own directory, counted at the last daily update ### How much traffic does startupdope.com get? startupdope.com gets about 3,920 visits a month (Sept 2026), by a modelled estimate of all its visitors, not analytics measured on the site. 37% of them (1,450) come from organic search. Visits rose 56% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. In short: startupdope.com draws about 3,920 visits a month, up 56% since Jul 2026. Source: [third-party traffic estimate, Sept 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/startupdope.com#evidence) ### Does startupdope.com link out with nofollow? In the 10 articles we read, startupdope.com made 31 links to other sites, and 6% of them were nofollow, sponsored or ugc; the other 94% were followed. BV prices a nofollow link at level C (×0.1), whatever the site is otherwise worth. Source: [mxverify's reading of 10 articles, 2 Nov 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/startupdope.com#reading); [Google Search Central: qualify your outbound links](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/qualify-outbound-links) ### How old is startupdope.com? The domain startupdope.com was registered in 2013, 13 years ago. Source: the public registration record; [RFC 9083: RDAP JSON responses](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9083/) ### Has startupdope.com been audited? No link placed on startupdope.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: startupdope.com's report is valued, not audited. How BV is worked out Site Strength 30 / 100 · level B · each factor and link type A followed editorial link from startupdope.com would be worth up to $114 under BV 2.9, before relevance: its Site Strength is 30 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level B, worth about $50 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $25 and $63. - **Site Strength**: **30** / 100 ([how Site Strength is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report)). Traffic: 1,450 estimated monthly organic visits, as of 2 November 2026. - **Worth up to**: $114 · before relevance — [how it is calculated](https://mxverify.uk/backlink-value#how) - **Usual link type**: Mostly level B — may be discounted · A 2%, B 81%, C 10%, D 6% → ×0.44 (each level's factor below, weighted by those shares) Read by Jev from our own reading of startupdope.com's homepage and 10 articles; 6% 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**: **$50** per link - **Domain registered**: 24 January 2013 · shown for context ([how age is used](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report)) ### A link from startupdope.com, by link type A link from startupdope.com at each level. [What each level means](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#link-levels). | Level | Factor | Value | | --- | --- | --- | | A — Counted | ×1 | $114 | | B — May be discounted | ×0.5 | $57 | | C — Usually neutralised | ×0.1 | $11 | | D — Network | ×0.05 | $5.68 | How startupdope.com links out: the full reading 10 articles read · each link counted Read by mxverify on 2 November 2026: the homepage and 10 articles (10 from across its sitemap). 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 31 links to other sites across 10 articles published Nov 2014 – Jun 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 94% - Nofollow 0% - Sponsored 6.5% - User-generated (ugc) 0% 31 links to other sites across 10 articles, share buttons left out. BV counts 6.5% 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** No guest-post, sponsored-post or advertising pages linked from the homepage. Runs on WordPress. ### Articles read | Article | Published | Words | Links out | Followed | Says | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [How Chizz Cunningham Is Helping Startups Rethink the CTO Role Through Fractional Technology Leadership - Architecture & Market Teardown \| Startup Dope](https://startupdope.com/news/how-chizz-cunningham-is-helping-startups-rethink-the-cto-role-through-fractional-technology-leadership?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Jun 2026 | 1,131 | 2 | 0 | — | | [10 Top PR Agencies for Startups in 2024: Launching into the Spotlight - Architecture & Market Teardown \| Startup Dope](https://startupdope.com/news/pr-agencies-for-startups-2024?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Dec 2023 | 1,490 | 7 | 7 | — | | [Establish Your Identity: The Significance Of Branding For Startups' Distinctiveness - Architecture & Market Teardown \| Startup Dope](https://startupdope.com/news/branding-for-startups-distinctiveness?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Jul 2023 | 1,220 | 1 | 1 | — | | [With Ekster Wallets, forget the fear of losing your wallet - Architecture & Market Teardown \| Startup Dope](https://startupdope.com/news/ekster-wallets-forget-fear-losing-wallet?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Feb 2017 | 1,011 | 8 | 8 | — | | [Monitordroid helps you access information anytime anywhere - Architecture & Market Teardown \| Startup Dope](https://startupdope.com/news/monitordroid-helps-you-access-information-anytime-anywhere?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Oct 2015 | 1,240 | 2 | 2 | — | | [HireOwl makes it easy for startups to hire talent - Architecture & Market Teardown \| Startup Dope](https://startupdope.com/news/hireowl-makes-it-easy-for-startups-to-hire-talent?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Aug 2015 | 1,215 | 1 | 1 | — | | [Top 10 IoT Platforms to Use for Development - Architecture & Market Teardown \| Startup Dope](https://startupdope.com/news/top-10-iot-platforms-to-use-for-development?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Jul 2015 | 1,671 | 8 | 8 | — | | [10 Creative Business Ideas and Marketing Plans - Architecture & Market Teardown \| Startup Dope](https://startupdope.com/news/10-creative-business-ideas-and-marketing-plans?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | May 2015 | 1,530 | 0 | 0 | — | | [Use Thinknum for efficient financial analysis! - Architecture & Market Teardown \| Startup Dope](https://startupdope.com/news/use-thinknum-for-efficient-financial-analysis?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Apr 2015 | 930 | 2 | 2 | — | | [Walt Disney's outing - Architecture & Market Teardown \| Startup Dope](https://startupdope.com/news/walt-disneys-outing?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2014 | 1,671 | 0 | 0 | — | Jev, the model that judges every link in a bklink audit, reads these pages as a site whose links are mostly level **A** — A 83%, B 13%, C 4.0%, 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 2.3%, B 81%, C 10%, D 6.0%. Jev reads it as a publication (92%), small or niche as a source (60%), and selling guest, sponsored or paid posts (68%). Traffic in detail engagement, top keywords, AI assistants Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, as of 2 November 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself. - **#4,128,279** global rank - **#1,932,092** rank in US - **33%** bounce rate - **1.9** pages per visit - **40s** time on site **Every channel** - [Organic search](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/organic-search) 37% - [Direct](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/direct) 36% - [Referrals](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/referrals) 9.0% - [Social](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/social) 6.1% - AI assistants 1.0% - [Email](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/email) 2.7% - [Paid](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/paid) 5.4% - Affiliate and other 3.1% 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.) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [taskmagic](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/taskmagic) | 1,550† | $7.68† | $11.9K† | 10 | | [streaming app script](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/streaming-app-script) | 30† | — | — | 10 | | [digital maker ai](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/digital-maker-ai) | 6,210† | $6.72† | $41.7K† | 0 | | [consio](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/consio) | 1,760† | $6.27† | $11K† | 0 | | [statisfy](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/statisfy) | 1,570† | $4.99† | $7,834† | 0 | 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 **41** visits in Sept 2026 — 1.0% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month: [ChatGPT](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ai/chatgpt) ChatGPT: Aug 2026 44%, Sept 2026 100% | Assistant | Aug 2026 | Sept 2026 | | --- | --- | --- | | ChatGPT | 44% | 100% | Jul 2026: no data — every assistant reads 0, so that month is not charted. At this volume the shares swing hard month to month: a handful of visits can move an assistant from 0% to 100%. Third-party traffic estimates. BV uses only the organic-search figure. Server and network a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites Its domain was registered in 2013. mxverify looked up startupdope.com's address: it 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 7 figures, their sources and dates | Figure | Source | What it covers | | --- | --- | --- | | [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/startupdope.com#value) | BV 2.9 | Site Strength × link type; link type from our reading of the site | | [Links placed here](https://mxverify.uk/publications/startupdope.com#links) | bklink audits | None audited yet | | [How it links out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/startupdope.com#reading) | Read by mxverify | 31 links to other sites in 10 articles, published Nov 2014 – Jun 2026; read 2 Nov 2026 Strong sample | | [Traffic](https://mxverify.uk/publications/startupdope.com#traffic) | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 2 Nov 2026 | | [Authority](https://mxverify.uk/publications/startupdope.com#value) | Ahrefs Domain Rating | Half of Site Strength, shown in steps of 5, as of 2 Nov 2026; the rating itself is not shown | | [Server and network](https://mxverify.uk/publications/startupdope.com#server) | mxverify's DNS and ASN lookup | 172.67.143.31 · Cloudflare (CDN) · a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites | | [Domain age](https://mxverify.uk/publications/startupdope.com#hosting) | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 24 Jan 2013 | Limitations: what this report does not show 3 stated plainly - 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. - startupdope.com gives more than one kind of link (A 2% · B 81% · C 10% · D 6%), so BV prices a blend of them: an editorial link there would be worth $114 and a guest or sponsored one $57, before relevance. What every report's figures can and cannot tell you: [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 02 November 2026 --- Source: mxverify, "Backlink Value & Traffic Report for startupdope.com", https://mxverify.uk/publications/startupdope.com (retrieved 2026-11-02). How every figure is worked out: https://mxverify.uk/methodology