YMYL Question

Does tattooing count as a YMYL topic?

For example say I want to write a post about how to care for a new tattoo, will that be flagged as YMYL by google because it involves the potential of becoming infected?

daewoo45 said:

Does tattooing count as a YMYL topic?

For example say I want to write a post about how to care for a new tattoo, will that be flagged as YMYL by google because it involves the potential of becoming infected?

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You can validate that yourself by Googling some "Tattoo" related search terms and analyze the results.

If you see a lot of LOW AUTHORITY websites on page 1, then I would cross out YMYL.

From my quick analysis, I see a lot of low authority websites ranking for "Tattoo" related terms.

For example, take this keyword which has 700 searches/mo based on AHREFS:


Those 2 results show up in the top 10 search results:



As you can see from the MOZ DA listed below those 2 SERP results (Using the MOZBar Chrome extension), those websites hold a DR of 8 and 9 respectively.

On the other hand, if you search for YMYL related keywords in a niche like "Pregnancy", you are not bound to find any website with DA of 20 or lower.

I could be wrong! But this is how I personally like to validate vague niches whether they are YMYL or not.

yousefgreat said:

You can validate that yourself by Googling some "Tattoo" related search terms and analyze the results.

If you see a lot of LOW AUTHORITY websites on page 1, then I would cross out YMYL.

From my quick analysis, I see a lot of low authority websites ranking for "Tattoo" related terms.

For example, take this keyword which has 700 searches/mo based on AHREFS:
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Those 2 results show up in the top 10 search results:
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As you can see from the MOZ DA listed below those 2 SERP results (Using the MOZBar Chrome extension), those websites hold a DR of 8 and 9 respectively.

On the other hand, if you search for YMYL related keywords in a niche like "Pregnancy", you are not bound to find any website with DA of 20 or lower.

I could be wrong! But this is how I personally like to validate vague niches whether they are YMYL or not.

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Thanks so much! I didn't know that could be done, will remember from now on. Appreciate you taking the time to look into it for me.