Filtering is about all I use DR for these days. It is a domain average, and the page is what gets crawled, so it tells me where to look, not what I found.
I meant the linking page’s own traffic, not just the domain total
Same read here. The extra column I keep is whether that page level traffic has anything to do with the topic it is linking out about. A lot of pages pull respectable numbers off one old post that went wide years ago, so the traffic is genuinely there and the relevance is not.
This is the check most vetting sheets leave out, and it is the cheapest one to add. Last publish date on the site, not on the page. Nothing has gone up since 2022 means the crawler has already learned it does not need to come back often, and your link sits there waiting to be noticed. I sort aged candidates on that before I look at any third party score, because it is the one thing on the list Google can see directly.
