<b>Relevance vs authority: the recurring fight</b>

<b>Relevance vs authority: the recurring fight</b>

An old argument resurfaced across a few threads this week.
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A case study on a niche affiliate blog claimed a DR28 contextual insert from a topically tight page outperformed a DR60 insert from an off-topic roundup.
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Counterpoint: a forum veteran called it survivorship bias and asked for the losers in the dataset.
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Also circulating: an agency post proposing a simple rule — relevance for sites under 100 referring domains, raw authority once you're past that.
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Worth a read: a Reddit comment reframing it as "relevance gets you indexed and counted, authority moves the needle once you're already counted."

Editor's note: nobody in the thread shared link counts alongside results, which is why this argument never ends.

Pick of the week: the under-100-domains rule of thumb. Crude, but it gives newer sites a default.