[WTA] Traffic Backlinks With Unindexed Guest Posts vs High DA PBNs?

Hi BHW, I have a question. I’ve been seeing threads discussing how 'traffic backlinks' are more worth it nowadays compared to high DA/PA PBN links with zero traffic.

Someone once offered me a link from a site with good main domain traffic. However, when I checked their samples (guest posts, in this case), none of the actual backlink pages were even indexed.

Given that, what do you think is the better approach here? Oh, and just for context, I’m working in the iGaming niche.

I would rather have a backlink from an indexed relevant page than chase high DA alone If the guest post is not indexed it is hard to expect much value In my experience relevance indexing and page quality matter more than metrics by themselves