---
title: "techcrunch.com backlink value: $236 per link — mxverify"
url: https://mxverify.uk/publications/techcrunch.com
description: "A followed link from techcrunch.com is worth $236 by BV 2.4 (link type A, nofollow). Not yet audited. Hosted on AUTOMATTIC (US). Domain registered 2005."
site: mxverify
generated: 2026-09-26T17:11:21.812Z
---

mxverify · valued

# Site report: techcrunch.com

Its domain was registered in 2005.

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

## Where each figure comes from

| Figure | Source | What it covers |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/techcrunch.com#value) | BV 2.4 | Site Strength × link type; link type from our reading of the site |
| [Links bought here](https://mxverify.uk/publications/techcrunch.com#links) | bklink audits | None audited yet |
| [How it links out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/techcrunch.com#reading) | Read by mxverify | 66 links to other sites in 10 articles, published Sept 2026; read 26 Sept 2026 Fair sample |
| [Traffic](https://mxverify.uk/publications/techcrunch.com#traffic) | TabAPI | Modelled estimates for Aug 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 26 Sept 2026 |
| [Authority](https://mxverify.uk/publications/techcrunch.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/techcrunch.com#server) | DNS and ASN registry | 192.0.66.220 · AUTOMATTIC |
| [Domain age](https://mxverify.uk/publications/techcrunch.com#hosting) | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 10 Jun 2005 |

## Backlink value

[BV **$236** per link · level A · nofollow · strength 80](https://bklink.uk/methodology#bv)

A followed editorial link from techcrunch.com would be worth up to $963 under BV 2.4, before relevance: its Site Strength is 80 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level A (an editorial citation), but 77% of its links are nofollow, so it is worth about $236 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $118 and $295.

- **Site Strength**: **80** / 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**: $963 · 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**: Level A — counted · **nofollow** on 77% of its links → ×0.25 Read by Jev from our own reading of techcrunch.com's homepage and 10 articles; 77% 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**: **$236** per link
- **Domain registered**: 10 June 2005 · shown for context; BV does not price on age

### A link from techcrunch.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 · nofollow here | An editorial citation: the site linked because it is useful to its readers. | ×1 | $963 |
| B — May be discounted | A guest, sponsored or placed article, or a product or tool directory listing. | ×0.5 | $482 |
| C — Usually neutralised | A press release or syndicated copy, a forum post, profile, footer or sidebar link — and any nofollow link. | ×0.1 | $96 |
| D — Network | A site on a server whose sites show footprints of one owner, a link farm, or machine-generated pages. | ×0.05 | $48 |

77% of techcrunch.com's links are nofollow, so a new link from it — an editorial citation — is priced at ×0.25: $236, where a followed one would be worth $963. BV prices the ranking value a link passes, and a nofollow link passes little.

## How techcrunch.com links out

Read by mxverify on 26 September 2026: the homepage and 10 articles (10 from its feed). 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 66 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 23%
- Nofollow 77%
- Sponsored 0%
- User-generated (ugc) 0%

66 links to other sites across 10 articles, share buttons left out. BV counts 77% 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** · “Advertise”

Runs on WordPress 6.9.9.

### Articles read

| Article | Published | Words | Links out | Followed | Says |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [At Meta Connect, the company's smart glasses were everywhere \| TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/at-meta-connect-the-companys-smart-glasses-were-everywhere/) | Sept 2026 | 979 | 1 | 1 | — |
| [Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers \| TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/crusoe-abandons-1-25b-plan-to-use-boom-turbines-at-ai-data-centers/) | Sept 2026 | 776 | 6 | 3 | — |
| [Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave \| TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/automattic-has-a-new-board-after-failed-attempt-to-put-ceo-on-leave/) | Sept 2026 | 1,111 | 24 | 4 | — |
| [Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab's knowledge \| TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/unsecured-openai-agents-posted-53-user-images-on-the-internet-without-the-labs-knowledge/) | Sept 2026 | 694 | 3 | 1 | — |
| [Meta opens early access program for new Muse features \| TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/meta-opens-early-access-program-for-new-muse-features/) | Sept 2026 | 589 | 4 | 1 | — |
| [The hottest new hangout for middle schoolers is NPR's comment section? \| TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/the-hottest-new-hangout-for-middle-schoolers-is-nprs-comment-section/) | Sept 2026 | 510 | 2 | 0 | — |
| [Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal \| TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/anthropic-to-pay-akamai-11-6-billion-over-seven-years-in-cloud-deal/) | Sept 2026 | 676 | 13 | 2 | — |
| [Mark Wahlberg is coming to Disrupt 2026 \| TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/mark-wahlberg-is-coming-to-techcrunch-disrupt-2026/) | Sept 2026 | 679 | 3 | 0 | — |
| [Ahead of US IPO, British AI neocloud Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing \| TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/ahead-of-u-s-ipo-british-ai-neocloud-nscale-secures-3-36b-in-convertible-finacing/) | Sept 2026 | 452 | 5 | 0 | — |
| [The Aeropod automates soil aeration without robotics — see it at TechCrunch Disrupt \| TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/the-aeropod-automates-soil-aeration-without-robotics-see-it-at-techcrunch-disrupt/) | Sept 2026 | 774 | 5 | 3 | — |

Jev, the model that judges every link in a bklink audit, reads these pages as a site whose links are mostly level **A** — A 97%, B 1.0%, C 2.0%, 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 11%, B 11%, C 78%, D 0%.

Jev reads it as a publication (100%), major as a source (80%), and not selling guest, sponsored or paid posts (51%).

## Traffic

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

- **8M** monthly visits −4.4% since Jun 2026
- **2.6M** from organic search 32% of visits
- **#10,095** global rank
- **#3,656** rank in US

- **64%** bounce rate
- **1.7** pages per visit
- **1m 15s** time on site

**Monthly visits**

Jun 2026: 8.3M visits; Jul 2026: 9M visits; Aug 2026: 8M visits

**Where visitors come from**

- Organic search 32%
- Direct 46%
- Referrals 7.3%
- Social 10%
- AI assistants 1.6%
- Email 2.0%
- Paid 1.1%
- Affiliate and other 0.0%

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

**Top countries**

- United States 60%
- India 6.0%
- United Kingdom 4.6%
- Canada 2.4%
- Germany 1.7%
- Other countries 25%

**Top search keywords**

| Keyword | Searches / mo | CPC | Traffic value |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [chatgpt](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/chatgpt) | 173.2M | $0.15 | $169.7K |
| [flipkart](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/flipkart) | 4.9M | $0.13 | $108.7K |
| [techcrunch](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/techcrunch) | 114.3K | $2.62 | $103.2K |
| [x](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/x) | 31.4M | $0.61 | $92.5K |
| [twitter](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/twitter) | 37M | $1.08 | $74K |

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 **130.8K** visits in Aug 2026 — 1.6% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month:

ChatGPT Perplexity Claude

ChatGPT: Jun 2026 70%, Jul 2026 75%, Aug 2026 85%; Perplexity: Jun 2026 5.8%, Jul 2026 8.5%, Aug 2026 7.4%; Claude: Jun 2026 11%, Jul 2026 11%, Aug 2026 6.3%

| Assistant | Jun 2026 | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ChatGPT | 70% | 75% | 85% |
| Perplexity | 5.8% | 8.5% | 7.4% |
| Claude | 11% | 11% | 6.3% |

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

## Links bought here

No link bought on techcrunch.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**: 192.0.66.220
- **Hosting network**: AUTOMATTIC · AS2635
- **Server country**: US
- **Domain registered**: 10 June 2005

## Server and network

No other publication in the directory runs on 192.0.66.220. 263 publications are on the same hosting network (AUTOMATTIC, AS2635) — a cloud platform hosting millions of unrelated sites, so that is no sign of a connection.

- **0** other publications on the same server
- **263** on the same hosting network

AUTOMATTIC 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.

## 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 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 techcrunch.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, "techcrunch.com backlink value: $236 per link — mxverify", https://mxverify.uk/publications/techcrunch.com (retrieved 2026-09-26). How every figure is worked out: https://mxverify.uk/methodology