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Guest post on a .edu site got me zero traffic
I landed a guest post on a legit .edu blog back in March, spent like 4 hours writing it up. Checked my analytics after a month and I got maybe 12 visitors total from the link. Turns out that domain had a huge spam filter and most of their outgoing links were nofollow or blocked. Learned the hard way to check link juice before spending time on outreach. Anyone else burned by a high-DA site that gave nothing back?
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blakem134d ago
Back in 2019 I got onto a .gov site with a solid DA and the same thing happened - 8 visits in two weeks. I checked the page source and found they had rel="noreferrer noopener" on all external links plus a javascript redirect that kept messing with the tracking. Before you write off high-DA sites completely, check their robots.txt too. Some of them block entire sections that include contributor pages. I keep a list now of the ones I've tested that actually pass link value, saved me from wasting time on a .edu site that sounded great but filtered everything.
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claire_walker4d ago
Ha, @blakem13 sounds like you’ve built yourself a little blacklist of shame for sites that talk a big game but deliver nothing. At this point you probably need a flowchart just to figure out if a link is actually worth clicking on.
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