## Telegraph

Telegraph is a minimalist anonymous publishing tool built by the Telegram team. Anyone can write a richly formatted article and publish it instantly to a public, server-rendered page at telegra.ph, with no account or signup required. Outbound links in articles are direct but carry rel="nofollow".

- URL: https://telegra.ph
- Guide: https://backlinkbadger.com/provider/telegraph/
- Link type: nofollow
- Free option: yes
- Domain authority: 5/100
- Spam score: 8/100
- Difficulty: 5/100
- Estimated time: 5 minutes
- Requirements: Web browser, Article content

Telegraph is probably the fastest article backlink on the web: the homepage is the editor, there is no signup, and pressing **PUBLISH** immediately creates a public page at `telegra.ph/<your-title>-<date>`. The catch is that every outbound link is nofollow, so treat this as a quick indexable mention rather than an authority play.

### Steps

1. Open [telegra.ph](https://telegra.ph/) - the page you land on is the editor itself.
2. Fill in **Title** and optionally **Your name** (any name works; there is no account).
3. Write your article in the **Your story...** area. Select any text to open the formatting toolbar and use the link button to attach your URL to the selected anchor text. Pasting a bare URL also works.
4. Click **PUBLISH** in the top-right corner. The article is instantly live and publicly accessible - there is no review queue.
5. Save the final URL somewhere safe, and keep using the same browser if you want to edit the page later.

[Image: Telegraph editor showing the Title, name, and story fields with the PUBLISH button]

### What the published link looks like

Telegraph pages are server-rendered plain HTML, marked `index, follow` with a canonical URL, so the pages themselves are crawlable and often get indexed. The outbound links, however, are rewritten with a nofollow attribute. A link published during our research rendered exactly as:

```html
<a href="https://example.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Example link</a>
```

The href is direct (no redirect wrapper), but the `rel="nofollow"` means Google is told not to pass authority through it. The same pattern is visible on Telegraph's own [API documentation page](https://telegra.ph/api), where every external link to telegram.org carries `rel="nofollow"`.

### Notes and tips

- **Keep your edit access.** Authorship is tied to a token in your browser's local storage. If you want durable control, connect Telegraph to the [@Telegraph Telegram bot](https://telegram.me/telegraph), which lets you manage your pages from your Telegram account.
- **Don't expect discovery.** Nothing on telegra.ph links to your new article. Its practical value comes from sharing the URL (Telegram chats render Telegraph posts as Instant View pages), from the page getting indexed for long-tail queries, and from having a neutral, instantly publishable page to point other links at.
- **Avoid spammy patterns.** Because the platform is abused so heavily, thin pages stuffed with links fit a known spam fingerprint. A short, genuinely readable article with one or two contextual links is more likely to stay up, get indexed, and be worth clicking.