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patch.comUnited StatesAI-citableMetrics updated 2026-06-08
General news coverage for readers in the United States, since 1994.
73A
VFCore Score
90
Domain rating
91
Domain authority
23.83M
Monthly traffic

Short answer

Patch.com publishes general news for readers in the United States, with a domain rating of 90 and about 24M monthly visitors. A placement runs as an editorial article with a nofollow link and carries a sponsored or partner label, typically live in 3 to 5 business days.

What you get

  • One published editorial article on patch.com
  • A nofollow link
  • Live URL and a dated screenshot in your case
  • Indexed by Google
  • Readable by AI answer engines

Specification

Format
Article
Tier
Tier 1
Region
United States
Language
English
Topics
General News
Founded
1994
Link type
Nofollow
Links allowed
1
Sponsored label
Sponsored
Google indexing
Indexed
AI answer engines
Can cite it
Permanence
permanent
Writing
Included, or send your own
Credibility rating
High

SEO authority and reach

How easily Patch.com ranks on Google and how much of the web points at it. Sources: Moz, Ahrefs, SEMrush, Tranco.

91
Domain authority

Moz, 0 to 100

67
Authority score

SEMrush, 0 to 100

1.6M
Organic visits / mo

From Google search

2.6M
Ranking keywords

Top 100 positions

12.6M
Backlinks

Links pointing in

228K
Referring domains

Unique linking sites

Citable by AI answer engines

Patch.com lets the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews read its pages, so an article here can be surfaced and cited when someone asks an assistant about you.

Read from the outlet’s robots.txt.

Where it lives

About Patch.com

Patch.com (patch.com) has been publishing since 1994 and covers general news for readers in the United States, in English. It reaches roughly 24M visitors a month, about 1.6M of them from Google search, and ranks for 2.6M search keywords. On authority it has a domain rating of 90, a domain authority of 91 and links from about 228k other websites. Its robots.txt lets the AI answer engines in, so an article here can be read and cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews. Every placement is quoted per case and paid into escrow; the money is released only when the live URL and a dated screenshot are posted into your case.

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