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Dofollow backlinks: 13 sites by how their links behaved
13 publications with 3 or more links audited by bklink, 171 audited links in all: whether each link stayed followed and in place, sat in the article, read as editorial, and ran only there. Each has its own report in search, is a site of its own and gets at least 1,000 visits a month by the traffic estimate: press-release feeds, copies of another site's report and link networks are left out. Sort by any column. These are placements our users chose to audit, so they describe those links, not every link on the site.
A dofollow link is an ordinary link: an <a href> whose rel carries none of nofollow, sponsored or ugc, so search engines may follow it and count it. Google defines no dofollow value; the word only means a link without the other three. This list shows, site by site, how often links placed there stayed that way. Read how placed links were marked, in bklink's nofollow vs dofollow study.
- 1 of the 9 publications with a followed rate kept every audited link followed.
- Half of them followed 0% or more of their audited links.
- 8 of 9 lost at least one link: removed, or on a page that no longer loads.
| # | Publication | |||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | tribuneindia.com | 3 | $157 | 1.9M | From 5 checked links | 100% of 3 | 100% of 3 | — | 100% of 3 | 18% of 3 | 0% of 3 | 52 of 3 | 789 of 3 | 1997 | 1998 | 10,537 | 1.9 s | — |
| 2 | bloomingtonlivestock.com | 3 | $14 | 1,890 | From what it is | 0% of 3 | 0% of 3 | — | — | — | 0% of 3 | — | — | 2003 | 2004 | 4,298,053 | 0.9 s | — |
| 3 | business.times-online.com | 3 | $26 | 163.8K | Thin evidence | 0% of 3 | 67% of 3 | — | — | — | 0% of 3 | — | — | — | — | 2,066,198 | 2.9 s | — |
| 4 | finance.yahoo.com | 3 | $660 | 51.3M | From our reading | 0% of 3 | 33% of 3 | — | — | — | 67% of 3 | — | — | — | — | 347 | 2.7 s | — |
| 5 | markets.businessinsider.com | 4 | $78 | 1.3M | Thin evidence | 0% of 4 | 50% of 4 | — | — | — | 75% of 4 | — | — | — | — | 4,304 | 3.4 s | — |
| 6 | markets.chroniclejournal.com | 3 | $40 | 121.9K | Thin evidence | 0% of 3 | 67% of 3 | — | — | — | 0% of 3 | — | — | — | — | 1,539,011 | 2.5 s | — |
| 7 | markets.financialcontent.com | 133 | $50 | 25.6K | From 67 checked links | 0% of 78 | 86% of 78 | 100% of 3 | 100% of 67 | 1% of 67 | 1% of 133 | 41 of 67 | 862 of 67 | — | — | 15,634 | 2.3 s | Sitefinity |
| 8 | money.mymotherlode.com | 3 | $32 | 17.7K | Thin evidence | 0% of 3 | 67% of 3 | — | — | — | 33% of 3 | — | — | — | — | 2,042,683 | 4.6 s | WordPress |
| 9 | wkow.marketminute.com | 3 | $33 | 1,334 | Thin evidence | 0% of 3 | 67% of 3 | — | — | — | 0% of 3 | — | — | — | — | 3,232,155 | 1.4 s | WordPress |
| 10 | agbest.com | 3 | $54 | 1,000 | Thin evidence | — | — | — | — | — | 0% of 3 | — | — | 1997 | — | 2,829,368 | 1.3 s | — |
| 11 | apnews.com | 3 | $596 | 21.3M | Thin evidence | — | — | — | — | — | 100% of 3 | — | — | 1991 | 1998 | 285 | 2.9 s | — |
| 12 | barchart.com | 3 | $295 | 2.1M | From our reading | — | — | — | — | — | 33% of 3 | — | — | 1995 | 1996 | 8,889 | 3.5 s | — |
| 13 | streetinsider.com | 4 | $254 | 150.2K | Thin evidence | — | — | — | — | — | 50% of 4 | — | — | 1999 | — | 15,646 | 1.2 s | — |
- Audited links
- Placed links on the site that bklink audited.
- BV per link
- What one new followed link from the site is worth to rankings, in US dollars, by mxverify's BV model: the figure on the site's report, priced daily. It is not a price anyone charges.
- Monthly visits
- The site's visits in a month, by a third-party traffic estimate (a model, not the site's own analytics), for the month its report names.
- Evidence
- What the BV figure rests on: links placed on the site and checked by bklink (3 or more), mxverify's reading of the site or what kind of site it is, or thin evidence — authority and traffic with the link type assumed. Each report says which, with dates.
- Followed
- Share of the audited links a check could read that pass credit to the site they point to (dofollow).
- Still in place
- Share of the audited links a check could read that were neither removed nor on a dead page.
- Kept over time
- Of the links present at a first check and checked again 14 or more days later, the share still there.
- In the article
- Share of the read links that sit in the article's text, not in a sidebar, header or footer.
- Editorial
- How likely each read link is an editorial citation or a guest post (levels A or B), averaged.
- Original
- Share of the placements whose article ran on no other site.
- Outside links
- Median number of links to other sites on a placed page. Fewer is a cleaner page.
- Article length
- Median words on a placed page.
- Registered
- When the domain was registered, from the public registration record. Registered domains only: a subdomain carries its parent's date.
- First archived
- When the Internet Archive first saved the site's homepage. Unlike the registration date, a subdomain has its own.
- Link-graph position
- Where the site sits among all the web's hosts in Common Crawl's link graph, by how close it is through links to every other host (harmonic centrality); 1 is the most central. Read from the top 20 million hosts of the latest release. A measure of how connected a site is, not an authority score, and not used in BV.
- Load time (LCP)
- How long the main content took to appear for three in four real Chrome visitors over 28 days (Largest Contentful Paint, 75th percentile), from the Chrome UX Report (Google), CC BY 4.0. Under 2.5 s is good. Sites with too few Chrome visits have none.
- CMS
- What the site is built on, read from its own homepage (its generator tag, or WordPress's file paths).
More lists
Each list below has 10 or more publications.
By domain ending: .com
Limitations: what this list does not show
- These are placements bklink customers chose to audit, not a random sample: they describe those links, not every link a publication carries.
- Only publications with 3 or more audited links are listed; a site with fewer is left out whatever its links did.
- A link is judged as each check found it. A link removed and put back between two checks is not seen.
- A followed link is not necessarily a link search engines value; this list does not measure rankings or traffic.