Do these massive high traffic, DA "guest post" sites bring any results? Discussion

Hello,

Have you ever received a message on Linkedin offering you a high-quality backlink? I believe that happens every single day

From time to time, I check them, and they have really low prices, but the sites are "high authority and high traffic". The keywords they rank for are usually super low competition + useless but with high traffic.

They usually send lists of sites, so it's super easy for Google to track them and flag them.

Anyway, did anyone do some tests with such spam sites? Did you get any results? Were they long-term?

I can imagine what kind of websites you are talking about. There is no use in getting links from those spammy sites.

I reviewed some of those sites in SEO tools and they are just created to sell links on them. Manipulated metrics and useless content on them

What's the point of getting links from sites that are ranking for useless or irrelevant keywords

Once google comes to know about those sites, it will be indexed and wasted

gary2 said:

I can imagine what kind of websites you are talking about. There is no use in getting links from those spammy sites.

I reviewed some of those sites in SEO tools and they are just created to sell links on them. Manipulated metrics and useless content on them

What's the point of getting links from sites that are ranking for useless or irrelevant keywords

Once google comes to know about those sites, it will be indexed and wasted

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Yeah I totally agree, but just thinking if someone did some actual tests even if it's a churn and burn site.

stickman said:

Hello,

Have you ever received a message on Linkedin offering you a high-quality backlink? I believe that happens every single day

From time to time, I check them, and they have really low prices, but the sites are "high authority and high traffic". The keywords they rank for are usually super low competition + useless but with high traffic.

They usually send lists of sites, so it's super easy for Google to track them and flag them.

Anyway, did anyone do some tests with such spam sites? Did you get any results? Were they long-term?

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The sites DA PA are just manipulated over , these are just spammed sites .

stickman said:

Yeah I totally agree, but just thinking if someone did some actual tests even if it's a churn and burn site.

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I have seen people using them, they didnt help in the long run. After few months of time it started to drop

But not sure its because of these links

Yeah I too receive a lot on daily basis. Not only from linkedin. But also by mail and even from FB lol. All are almost crap sites which leads our money site got hit in my opinion

When purchasing these links to drop say a blog I’ve written on one of these guest blog websites, what’s the best way to assess if they’re worth posting on? Is there any due diligence process I can follow before I make the purchase?

as you stated, DA and PA can be highly manipulated dues to ranking for keywords that are completely irrelevant to my blog but google scores them high, is that right?

Look the below loop to understand which link is useful & which is not.

Quality link = Niche Relevancy + Authority (Quality Link + Traffic).

Thanks for that formula.

how do you measure site authority? I say this because I would normally look at the DA for this score/validation?

Some of these sites have 1-3kk traffic. But the keywords are, for example, "Brad Pitt net worth" etc. I think they should have at least some authority to gain these position. Anyway they are still crap I believe.

The metrics of those sites would have been manipulated and linking to it cannot give you expected results. Building links from real traffic sites can give you good results.

stickman said:

Some of these sites have 1-3kk traffic. But the keywords are, for example, "Brad Pitt net worth" etc. I think they should have at least some authority to gain these position. Anyway they are still crap I believe.

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As funny as it may sound they actually do work for those entertainment and celebrity styled websites. Those links work.

They just won't work for all kinds of niches and sites but for entertainment and celebrity styled blogs, they work.

The fact that Google ranks the page means it has some form of authority and that authority gets passed on to sites they link out to.

I'm saying this from experience.

It actually doesn't matter what you and I think about links, what truly matters is how Google treats such links.

Array Experts said:

Quality link = Niche Relevancy + Authority (Quality Link + Traffic).

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This formula is actually messed up if you know a little bit of maths. But I get the message you're trying to send.

What I can recommend to choose the best sites for guest posts is to check their ranking keywords.

Whether the keywords they rank are relevant and not spammy random keywords

Monthly traffic should be higher than the number of keywords they rank for. Let's say example site A has 5K ranking keywords in Ahrefs but their monthly traffic is 1K a month or less. I would say they have less authority

If you are filtering these options, then the guest post price would be a little bit more expensive than the usual price. But its worth getting link from them

gary2 said:

Monthly traffic should be higher than the number of keywords they rank for. Let's say example site A has 5K ranking keywords in Ahrefs but their monthly traffic is 1K a month or less. I would say they have less authority

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I would suggest you don't take traffic estimates from semrush and ahrefs too seriously. Sometimes the traffic are grossly inflated especially when your rank on page 1 but not top 3. I have page that's estimated to get upto 1k traffic per month from a specific keyword which it ranks 9-10. But in reality it doesn't even get half of that.

That keyword gets tens of thousands of monthly search.

HenryObi said:

I would suggest you don't take traffic estimates from semrush and ahrefs too seriously. Sometimes the traffic are grossly inflated especially when your rank on page 1 but not top 3. I have page that's estimated to get upto 1k traffic per month from a specific keyword which it ranks 9-10. But in reality it doesn't even get half of that.

That keyword gets tens of thousands of monthly search.

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I get you but at least these tools give us some assumptions.

But yeah, you are right