Publisher scorecard
Google News · no paywall/subscription · Est Valuation (USD) · Buyability Score 0–6 · Category NA = topic not scanned · Independent Blog + organic ≥1k (NA traffic kept) on by default · excludes Tranco top-10k + known products/brands
Ranks news publishers that look cheap to acquire for SEO — not domain dropcatching.
Inventory → scorecard (pipeline gates; last row = OpenAI indie classification on the scorecard pool, not a crawl gate):
| Gate | Excluded | Remaining |
|---|---|---|
| Discovered (Google News + Ahrefs refdomains) | — | 143,871 |
| Ignored — Tranco top-~10k / products / brands | −18,776 | 125,095 |
| Non-news site kinds | −4,743 | 120,352 |
| Paywall / paid subscription / ecommerce | −11,681 | 108,671 |
| Not in Google News (inclusion probe not ✓) | −96,724 | 11,947 |
| Scorecard pool (all rows in DATA) | — | 11,947 |
| Of scorecard: Independent Blog (LLM Yes) | −10,979 | 968 |
UI defaults (not pipeline): Independent Blog only (LLM Yes) + organic ≥1k (NA traffic kept) → 479 rows visible — subset of the Of-scorecard Independent Blog remaining above. WordPress stays Any. Change filters to widen.
Verticals crawled: crypto · gaming · sports · igaming · poker — Google News RSS (51 locales); Ahrefs sports hubs (DE/IT/FR/CZ/GR/FI); Ahrefs poker refdomains.
Buyability 0–6 (+1 each: Independent Blog, free email, no socials, WordPress, donations, stock theme). Est Valuation from DR / health / non-English (see column tips). NA = not checked or failed — never invent ✓/✗.
| Est Valuation | Buyability Score | Domain | Category | G News | DR | Organic traffic | Independent Blog | Health | WordPress | Free Email | Socials | Contact | Signals |
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