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

说明与用途

作者测试了Dev.to、Medium和Telegraph是否将链接权重传递给自己的网站，发现三者均不传递。此结果导致发布策略从SEO转向关注受众，外链也仅保留真正有价值的链接。

问题

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

结果

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.

工作流

• 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.

证据

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

来源

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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