Backlinks with High DR and DA Vs High Traffic Backlink

What you preffer as guest post?

  • Site with more traffic?

    Votes: 14 77.8%

  • Site with High DR DA?

    Votes: 4 22.2%
  • Total voters
    18
Zakhej

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My findings from the recent research in affiliate marketing. I hope, it will help other people too.



I have recently published several hundred guest post links to 10 websites in my portfolio. I deliberately chose several websites with traffic instead of focussing on DR or DA in one group. In the other group, I just focussed on high DR or DA websites for guest posting.



The first screenshot is of the website that is linked by high-traffic websites.



The second screenshot was taken from the ahrefs report of a website that was linked by high DR/DA websites and did not have significant traffic.



The high DR guest posts resulted in fluctuation in traffic as seen in the graph. Whereas the high-traffic websites helped my website climb up gradually.



What is your experience? I would love to hear your story to increase my experience.
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There are several other factors for ranking fluctuations. It's difficult to say how much of it is the effect of backlinks.
 
With all the shitty websites build purely for guest posting, you should go for more than traffic & metrics wise,
Both of the metrics & traffic could be easily manipulated (even both) to show you some fancy numbers,
Do simply use some spammy links with high DR/PR to increase yours, which is even easier & worse for the DA/PA as you can get them up by using some useless redirects,
For the traffic side, you can simply rise it up targeting some really useless easy to rank keywords with little to no competition basically,

So, what you should be checking for a website is the number and the quality of its links as well as the difficulty of its top ranking keywords,
If a website does rank for some medium to difficult keyword, it simply means it's loved by the engine and does have some value,

Overall, you can use both of the metrics & traffic to filter a list but it's not something you should totally rely on while picking the websites
 
hideath said:
With all the shitty websites build purely for guest posting, you should go for more than traffic & metrics wise,
Both of the metrics & traffic could be easily manipulated (even both) to show you some fancy numbers,
Do simply use some spammy links with high DR/PR to increase yours, which is even easier & worse for the DA/PA as you can get them up by using some useless redirects,
For the traffic side, you can simply rise it up targeting some really useless easy to rank keywords with little to no competition basically,

So, what you should be checking for a website is the number and the quality of its links as well as the difficulty of its top ranking keywords,
If a website does rank for some medium to difficult keyword, it simply means it's loved by the engine and does have some value,

Overall, you can use both of the metrics & traffic to filter a list but it's not something you should totally rely on while picking the websites
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I agree with @hideath

You can also add another point that real legitimate and authority websites are getting traffic for many pages. Not a ton of traffic for a few or 3/5 pages.
 
As mentioned above, both metrics and traffic can be manipulated, so on their own are not the best indicators of a quality link.

One thing you've not mentioned is relevance.
If you have say a business website and you secure a guest post placement on a high traffic site for entrepreneurs. If that site has keywords that are ranking highly for movie download/streaming, then that's spammy, irrelevant traffic - and the site should be avoided. So while high traffic is good, irrelevant traffic that won't convert is pretty much useless.
 
A link from a topically relevant site with good traffic is way better than the high DA/DR sites.
 
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