Curated: the pre-buy checklist, from five sources

Curated: the pre-buy checklist, from five sources

Everyone has one. Here's the overlap worth keeping. Items pulled from this week's threads.

— Traffic trend, not just a metric badge — an agency blog insists on a 6-month organic graph before buying.
— Outbound link count per page — a forum post flags pages already leaking to 20+ unrelated sites.
— Topic match at the page level, not domain level — a Reddit thread's most-upvoted point.
— Last-crawl recency — repeated across three sources as the sleeper metric.
— Removal history — does the host quietly strip links; ask for a reference buyer.

Editor's note: when five unrelated sources converge on the same five checks, that's your minimum viable due diligence.

Pick of the week: the traffic-trend-first agency post. It outranks every metric tool on signal.