What qualities to look for when trying to find sites to get backlinks from?

[Bperry129]

When trying to build backlinks, of course some sites are much harder to get links on than others. I am trying to figure out which sites my time and effort is best spent trying to get a link on. I may view a site as important and high quality but Google may not. Which tools and metrics within MOZ should I look at to determine if a site is worth the effort to get a backlink from?

I'm sure "Domain Authority" is a factor. Which number makes it definitely worth pursuing?
Does inbound links and spam score count for anything?

Which metric is best to look at to figure out the most powerful backlink I can get?

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[RossKernez]

I would look into these things:

• how much traffic that specific site gets on a monthly basis

• how does the anchor cloud look like( do they have any spammy links?)

• Look at this site in the web archive to see if the theme of this site has been many changed

• If the site had any drops in organic traffic

• If the site has many redirects

• How many other sites are located on the same IP or C block( many webmasters put all these sites on the same server)

• Does the site has any high-quality links pointing to it

• What is the link velocity for the specific site

• Do not look into DA only because it could be manipulated