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Link Quality Checker · Public report · Oct 17, 2026 17:29

salon.com

Good link. Higher authority than 99% of media sites.

Link score

80

/100

Confidence: high

Trust

Strong

Authority

Strong

higher than 99% of media sites

Visibility

Moderate

Selling risk

Low

3 of 3 signs checked

Category breakdown

Weighted score

Trust

30% · 2/4 passing

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75

Authority

30%

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88

Visibility

25% · 1/5 passing

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66

Link profile

15%

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100

Score history

2 scans
100 50 0

Completed scans only. Same-day reruns stay distinct by timestamp.

Confidence: high · 12 of 12 checks had data

Compared to 183416 media sites

Authority 99th percentile
WeakestMedianStrongest

Higher authority than 99% of media sites we track.

Salon.com

US digital media publisher covering politics, culture, and news

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Can you trust this site?

Signs of a real, clean website

Strong
  • Few spam signs

    No spam signs found.

    Strong
  • Real business behind it

    On the pages we crawled we found 6 social profiles.

    Moderate
  • Security certificate

    Basic certificate. Most sites use this kind.

    Moderate
  • Google is allowed to index it

    Crawled pages allow indexing.

    Strong

Do people find this site?

Google search and AI assistants

Moderate
  • Ranks on Google's first page

    Shows in the top 10 for 17 searches.

    Moderate
  • Rankings are current

    Last seen ranking today.

    Strong
  • Cited by AI assistants

    Named as a source in 1 answers we captured.

    Moderate
  • Cited by several assistants

    perplexity.

    Moderate
  • Cited recently

    Last cited 33 days ago.

    Moderate

Does this site sell links?

3 warning signs buyers and Google look for

Low risk · 3 of 3 signs checked
  • Pages stuffed with links

    0% of crawled pages mainly link out to other sites.

    Low risk
  • Pushy sales links

    No crawled page uses sales words as link text.

    Low risk
  • Redirects elsewhere

    0% of crawled pages forward visitors to another site.

    Low risk

Warning signs, not proof. We grade what we saw on the pages we crawled. We cannot know whether this site sells links.

Similar sites to consider

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constantcontact.com Links to 50 of the same sites Stronger 89 —
blogspot.fr Links to 45 of the same sites Similar Not checked yet Not checked yet
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motherjones.com Links to 45 of the same sites Similar 80 Low risk
wikimili.com Links to 45 of the same sites Weaker 60 —

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Frequently asked questions

We grade 4 areas: trust, authority, visibility in Google and AI assistants, and the site's own links. Areas without data do not count against the site.

No. It shows warning signs we saw on the pages we crawled. A site can show some signs and still be a fine place for a link.

We have not crawled or seen enough of this site yet. Those rows do not lower the score.

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