Metrics come from our September 2026 snapshot. DA, traffic and price are re-checked whenever you ask for availability, and roughly one listing in twenty is pulled between snapshots — usually for losing indexation, changing its outbound link policy, or turning into a link shop. We do not sell a slot we cannot confirm, so the number on a brief is the starting point rather than the promise.
Because a card cannot hold an argument. The filter grid is the right tool for shortlisting by budget and authority; the brief is the right tool for deciding whether a specific placement makes sense, which depends on the site's audience, its publishing habits and the page your link would actually sit on. Both exist now, and the grid links to the briefs.
Our own score for the placement templates on each host: how much of the domain's crawl attention and internal linking reaches a contributor article, how old those pages tend to be, and how often they sit in search results. It is deliberately not a third-party metric, because the question it answers is "will this particular page be seen", not "how big is this domain".
No. The host's editor decides what survives, and on the larger titles in this index that is exactly why the placement is worth anything. What we guarantee is what we control: a contextual in-body link to your chosen URL, the attribute as recorded on this page or a better one, verification on the live URL before it counts as delivered, a dated report, and 12-month replacement if the link drops.
DA is a domain-level average; you are buying one page. Traffic, whether the audience is your market, how permanent the archive is, how much sponsored content the site already runs and how competitive its inventory all move the price. That variance is the reason these briefs exist — the comparison columns on each page put a listing against its own niche median and against the whole index.
Sometimes. A citation on a publication with real traffic builds branded search, gets crawled, and is increasingly what answer engines pick up as a source; it just does not pass anchor-text weight. We buy them for brand and discovery work, never as the centrepiece of a ranking campaign, and the brief for each says which attribute we observed.
How the numbers here were produced
DA and DR are scores from our crawler rather than a resold third-party export, traffic is an estimate of monthly organic visits, prices are the current rate for each listing, and PA is our own page-level measure. Every comparison column is computed across the 2,000 rows in this index, which is why a brief can say a listing is cheaper per visit than most of its authority band and show its working. None of it is scraped from the publishers themselves, and none of these sites are sold on their behalf: we request the slot from the site or its sales team, and if they decline, you are told before you pay.