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85.3%

85.3% -- low quality guest posting sites share for guest posting sites (2026)

Name: Low Quality Guest Posting Sites Share Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-09-30

2026 · anchorial.io

85.3% of guest posting sites are considered low quality, defined as having a DR under 40 with fewer than 10,000 monthly organic visitors.

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Value

85.3%

Unit

Percentage

Data Vintage

2026

Entity

guest posting sites

Evidence Quality

Strong, reliable evidence

Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.

61/100 confidence

Single source - not yet corroborated

Score breakdown

Extraction

Source Trust

Citation Chain

Independence

Methodology

Freshness

Source

anchorial.io Primary Tier C

https://www.anchorial.io/blog/authority-backlinks-what-they-are-and-how-to-get-them ↗

Confidence: 48/100 Vintage: 2026 Channel: Common Crawl

Source Article

Authority Backlinks: What They Are and How to Get Them in 2026

Original Research

anchorial.io · Original study ↗

Methodology

Survey cited by Anchorial; low quality defined as DR under 40 and under 10,000 monthly organic visitors

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Segmentation

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guest posting sites: 85.3% low quality guest posting sites share. Source: anchorial.io (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/guest-posting-sites-low-quality-85-3

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