We Checked If Three Platforms Pass Link Authority to Our Site. None Did.

Описание и применение

Автор проверил, передают ли платформы Dev.to, Medium и Telegraph ссылочный авторитет своему сайту, и выяснил, что никакая из них не передает его. Это изменило стратегию публикаций, теперь фокус смещён на аудиторию, а не на SEO.

Задача

Assuming guest posts on platforms like Dev.to, Medium, and Telegraph pass SEO link authority to the author’s own site without verification.

Результат

All three platforms (Dev.to, Medium, Telegraph) returned no authority‑passing backlinks; links were often followable but pages were marked non‑indexable, nullifying SEO benefit.

Рабочий процесс

• 1. Select recent posts on each platform.
• 2. Fetch each page’s raw HTML via a plain HTTP request (no login).
• 3. Parse the HTML to locate links to the author’s domain.
• 4. Check each link’s rel attribute for nofollow/sponsored/ugc.
• 5. Inspect the page’s <meta name="robots"> tag for noindex or nofollow.
• 6. Determine authority pass: link must be followable AND page indexable.
• 7. Record results and repeat on a schedule.

Доказательства

We checked three platforms. None of them pass link authority to our site.

Источник

If the links are frequently followable but authority still does not pass, the block is not (only) at the link level — it is at the page level.

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