Backlinks: What metrics do you look at?

warriorsam53 said:

For backlinks, I use organic traffic as per AHREFS or SEMRush. All the other metrics are crap and can be manipulated with Fiverr gigs.

A site could have a DR of 90, 100K RD, and 100 CF and TF and be de-indexed by Google. A link from such a site would be worthless.

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ScreamingMidget said:

Please share, how to get the DA up... I have a site with a DA of 50 which sells posts well, but if I can get it up to DA60 - even better!

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MrDenz said:

I was also looking at Spam scores until like a year ago when I created a new site that still to this day has 1 hand-written article [test site], guess what?

My only explanation why it has 11% SS is because it's about damn IM!

There is no other logical explanation, even this is BS but, I don't see anything else.

After that, I've done small research and seen a ton of great, old domain that ranks well, almost huge as Backlinko with 33% SS like wtf.

SS up to 30% - 40% is ok...

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ScreamingMidget said:

What do you think are the most important metrics when looking at the quality of a website (to get a backlink from)?

Personally, I look at Ahref's DR, Referring Domains (RD), Keywords ranked & Traffic; along with Majestic's TF, CF and Ratio. If I'm selling, I find a lot of people treat the Moz DA as gospel.

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