Let’s get one thing straight: TechnologyNewsMedia.com is not a premium news site. It’s not respected. It’s not editorially curated. It’s not even legitimate. It’s just another pathetic example of a digital landfill—one of the thousands of low-effort, low-quality Private Blog Network (PBNs) sites used to sell backlinks coupled with totally worthless junk content! TechnologyNewsMedia.com is not a premium news site TechnologyNewsMedia.com Recently, I reached out to the owner, Mohammed Khan, of this so-called “tech news media” website with a solid, well-written article to offer. The kind of piece any credible editor would thank you for submitting—assuming they had any actual readership to begin with. thank The reply? A laughable request: $100 to publish the post with two dofollow links. Let me repeat that: One hundred dollars for a paid guest post on a website that’s not even worth the cost of a domain renewal. Not even worth $5 bucks for a niche edit. $100 to publish the post with two dofollow links. One hundred dollars Let’s Pull Back the Curtain TechnologyNewsMedia.com is a classic PBN-style operation. A junk blog bloated with scraped AI content, generic “how-to” tech blurbs, walls of keyword-stuffed gibberish, thin content, and a free generic WordPress template. TechnologyNewsMedia.com What’s more insulting is the blatant manipulation of domain metrics. The owner has tried to game the system by flooding the site with spammy backlinks—many coming from blog comments, abandoned forums, and scraped junk sites in order to make the domain authority score (DA) - (DR) look higher than what it really is (Its real organic DA - DR would be closer to (Zero) The links pointing to and externally referencing TechnologyNewsMedia.com are the digital equivalent of dumpster juice. They don’t count, not to search engines that matter, because they come from spam sources such as blog comment forms, forums, and low-trust, toxic sources. Oh, and the traffic? FAKE. We’re talking traffic bots, not readers. Tools like SparkTraffic, or some other click farm nonsense, are being used to simulate visits and make the site appear “active.” In reality, there’s probably more real traffic on a Myspace page. traffic bots The $5 Value Trying to Sell at $100 Let’s be real: a paid guest post on a PBN like this isn’t worth more than $5—on a generous day. And yet, this guy is selling the idea that he’s running some prestigious online publication, as if he’s got a newsroom filled with journalists typing furiously behind glass walls, powered by coffee and integrity. on a generous day. Spoiler: There is no newsroom. There are no journalists. There’s probably no original content that wasn’t spun, scraped, or spat out by a low-end AI content generator running GPT 2.0 or some other relic. Don’t Be That Person! What this scammer does have is audacity. He’s peddling a site that wouldn’t survive a manual Google review for five seconds, slapping a triple-digit price tag on guest posts, and hoping that someone desperate or inexperienced enough will take the bait. does Sites like TechnologyNewsMedia.com are part of the backlink economy scam—the shady underworld of digital marketing where scammers buy expired domains, stuff them with filler content, inflate their Domain Authority (DA) and Domain Rating (DR) with spam, fake the traffic stats, and then turn around and sell “placement” as if they’re Bloomberg. backlink economy scam sell “placement” as if they’re Bloomberg. It’s digital snake oil, plain and simple. And here’s my message to the site owner: You want my content? You can pay me. Because let’s be honest—you need it more than I need your garbage domain. If you’re going to run a fake news blog built on lies, at least have the decency to charge scammer rates in line with scammer value. Maybe $2.99 with a free broken backlink. You want my content? You can pay me. Editor’s note: This story represents the views of the author of the story. The author is not affiliated with HackerNoon staff and wrote this story on their own. The HackerNoon editorial team has only verified the story for grammatical accuracy and does not condone/condemn any of the claims contained herein. If you would like us to include your version of events, please email us at yes-reply@hackernoon.com. #DYOR Editor’s note: This story represents the views of the author of the story. The author is not affiliated with HackerNoon staff and wrote this story on their own. The HackerNoon editorial team has only verified the story for grammatical accuracy and does not condone/condemn any of the claims contained herein. If you would like us to include your version of events, please email us at yes-reply@hackernoon.com. #DYOR Editor’s note: This story represents the views of the author of the story. The author is not affiliated with HackerNoon staff and wrote this story on their own. The HackerNoon editorial team has only verified the story for grammatical accuracy and does not condone/condemn any of the claims contained herein. If you would like us to include your version of events, please email us at yes-reply@hackernoon.com Editor’s note: This story represents the views of the author of the story. The author is not affiliated with HackerNoon staff and wrote this story on their own. The HackerNoon editorial team has only verified the story for grammatical accuracy and does not condone/condemn any of the claims contained herein. If you would like us to include your version of events, please email us at yes-reply@hackernoon.com yes-reply@hackernoon.com #DYOR #DYOR

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