zarahschaffer asked
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Which backlink will be worth more to my site?

I have a question re backlinks from 2 different sites linking to me. And when I say 2 sites, I mean ALL OTHER THINGS BEING EQUAL (so we won’t go off on tangents about relevancy, dofollow vs nofollow [though, for the sake of article, both will be dofollow], number of on-page outbound links, etc).

Site A is the NYTimes.com whose page (a relevant article) with 0 backlinks has a link to my site.

Site B is a Wordpress blog with an OK backlink profile (say, Moz DA rank of 30) whose page (an equally relevant article with the same length and depth as the NY Times’) has 1000 backlinks, and this page links to my site.

Which backlink will be worth more to my site? Site A page’s or Site B page’s? Again, for the sake of this argument, we’re assuming ALL OTHER ELEMENTS are the same besides the backlink profiles. Thanks!

KnowOneSpecial
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The NYT.... 4 many reasons....

< edited April 24th >

I thought to expand on this answer because it is so short and doesn't explain why the NTY link is worth more.

You forget all the backlinks going to the NYTs. You don't take into account all pages that link back to the home page and all the juice from the site will get funneled to that page in some form and amount.

This means sites with more pages have more juice by the nature of the beast. All pages of a website link back to the home page and like most sites the home page will probably have a link to the sub page as per this example.

Comparing the NYT to a WordPress blog is really a poor choice for comparison, just saying

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digitalmc
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There are too many.

You can use Ahrefs Backlinks checker tool https://ahrefs.com/site-explor

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digitalmc
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tooo many

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henrymartin
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There are many things you can use anything

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Which backlink will be worth more to my site?

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