Blacklisting Sites for Grey-Market Traffic Kills Access to High-Trust Links

Conventional SEO wisdom dictates blacklisting backlink prospects if their organic traffic stems from non-topical or grey-market queries.

Ranking data contradicts this.

Surviving and ranking in fiercely contested, spam-heavy SERPs — such as streaming — demonstrates active algorithmic authority and crawler trust against competing spam.

To exploit this discrepancy, execute price arbitrage rather than semantic filtering, advises Romain Pirotte.

Do not reject these domains over semantic mismatch.

Instead, evaluate the asset on raw indexation volume and price-to-power efficiency.

Reject premium valuations — such as paying €140 for a placement on Julsa — but acquire the exact same domain at a steep €60 discount.

The underlying domain power transfers to the target site, bypassing the inflated organic traffic metrics.