Score a Backlink Prospect
Evaluate backlink prospects by relevance, editorial fit, link context, and risk.
A prospect has a strong authority metric but an unrelated gardening audience and a paid placement offer for a payroll benchmark link. Relevance plus editorial fit plus asset fit plus natural anchor minus risk The common trap is to chase the highest domain metric. That ignores whether the link helps readers, fits the article, or supports the target page topic. Score relevance Gardening site to payroll benchmark: 1 out of 5 relevance. The audience and article topic do not naturally connect to payroll operations, so the link context is weak. Score editorial fit Would the link help the reader of…
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