yasirtahirkheli74
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I have been having this sort of situation where a site has a very good traffic but RD is too low and. To the best of my understanding, I should skip it not waste my time on it. Am I right by doing so?
What to do if RD ( Referring Domains ) are too low but Ahref traffic is more than 1k?
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I'm assuming you are talking about buying domains.
Old organic traffic is generally a good indication, given that we all know that not only content but reputation and authority are elements that bring traffic. So if a site has a massive traffic but low RD, it may mean in numerous instances that some of those RD could be powerful.
So, as soon as I spot astounding traffic for a domain, I promptly proceed to analyze the URL profile manually and see what's was going on. Then you may see like 5 pages coming from high authoritative site, and not many extra RD at all (for example a niche product that impacted with high-quality PR). Then I would consider whether it's a good opportunity or not.
But there are so many factors to take into consideration, that sticking with these non-disruptive rules are not enough to succeed.
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Which is why I guess that such site should be skipped. But then I realize that there some supreme or high quality sites with exceptional traffic but they may not reflect high number of RDs as well. For example manufacturers may have millions of visitors on their site but dont really refer to any other significant domain/s either. Am I right?
yasirtahirkheli74
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Thats very well explained but my scenario is different in a way that there are certain websites that have a good traffic but their RDs are not very good at all. Since I am a reseller, so I have to make deals on them with their owners who usually are quite stubborn and hell bent on to forcing me to agree to their guest posts terms which are usually and obviously very unrealistic.
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Relevancy is a big factor here.
If the domain is closely related to your niche, then even a low-RD backlink with 1k+ traffic is totally worth it!
Example 1: You have a shoe site and the guest post you are buying is a socks site. GO for it!
Example 2: You have a shoe site and the guest post is on a skincare site. NOT worth the hassle
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Generally 80% of the buyers purchase just any random tool like Moz Semrush or even Ahrefs and they only follow their ratings blindly. So traffic won't be a useful metric when you are a seller sometimes depending on your market.
But I'm talking on general lines and how I would approach it if those domains were for myself. You might understand which is your market and adapt to it.
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