Is this site buying backlinks?
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Almost all of their links come from mainly the same few sites, and some of their links have a really high spam score.
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A very interesting detail is the use "affiliatly" as affiliate tracking software at Dankstop, I personally prefer to use Linktrust.
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Thank-you! I am aware that they actually have a really big affiliate program; so, that makes a lot of sense.
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I ran an audit
148K Backlinks from 151 domains and 149 Ip address
on average 1000 links per domain
Much of those links are sponsored, this means they are not buying links, they are running an affiliate campaing.So basically there are many bloggers creating and promoting content related with the products of DankStop and of course they are sending traffic to the site beacuse if someone buy, they recieve a commision.
This an example
http://euphoria.press/best-cheap-dab-rigs/
if you look in deep you will found a link with the anchor "DankStop" pointing to dankstop.comIs a very common practice in the affiliations world
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