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Today's note is from the SEO Realist perspective of: sometimes you've just gotta acquire links. My apologies in advance to the white-hat crew.
So if you're doing that, you're going to have a few traditional metrics that help you determine if a link is "good" or not.
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There's the classic DR 60+, traffic 1000 that's very popular with many link sellers. Am I saying it's bad? Not necessarily, no metric is perfect.
Side note: don't just rely on metrics. Metrics can help you narrow down your list, but make sure you use your brain check to see if the content the site is ranking for isn't on topic.
Other popular metrics include DA, Moz Spam Score, Majestic's Trust Flow / Citation Flow and maybe some others, but today's not is going to discuss a new metric "invented" by noted affiliate SEO and 6 figure website flipper Israel Gaudette.
It's: