26k monthly visits is a steady, readable audience, roughly about 4.7× the index median compared with the index median of 5.5k.
There is a second job these placements do that is worth naming: they make a young or thin profile look normal. A domain that acquires 39-level links from a spread of ordinary publications, in drips, over months, looks like a business that has been around. A domain that acquires forty links from aggressive networks in a fortnight looks like a campaign, and it is the pattern rather than the individual link that gets noticed.
bloggoto.com has 56 DR against an index median of 51, 26k monthly visits against a median of 5.5k, and a placement price of $80 against $70. Where those three numbers point in different directions, the traffic figure is usually the honest one: it is what a publisher has to protect, and it is what decays first when a site starts selling too much inventory.
General-interest publications are the workhorses of a link profile and the easiest place to overpay. The article shape that works is boringly specific: a problem, the method used, what happened, what it cost. A general title with 26k monthly visits survives because it answers questions well, not because it loves contributors, so a piece with nothing verifiable in it gets edited down to a bio link.
Our observation on this host is do-follow outbound links in editorial content. That is the attribute, not the value: the 39 DA and 26k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.