Guest post on brustmagazine.com: the site brief

Mid-market at $80: the band where judgement about the site matters more than the invoice.

What makes a media placement behave differently from a blog placement is the traffic shape: a spike in the first 48 hours, then almost nothing, then a slow trickle that search supplies for months. That is a fine trade if you want proof your brand can be quoted; it is a poor trade if you bought the slot hoping for a permanent contextual link. Confirm the permalink will stay in the site's archive before you commit.

The arithmetic a buyer should see: 25,000 estimated visits a month, $80 per placement, so $3.20 per thousand visits for a do-follow link on a site scoring 40 DA and 34 PA. Snapshot September 2026; availability and the exact link attribute are confirmed on the live URL before an invoice, which is the only part of this page that changes week to week.

News sites are the hardest place to earn a body link and the easiest place to earn a mention. Editorial staff strip links from contributions more often than any other publisher type, and the ones that survive are the links that carry a source, a figure or a document a reader might want. Build the piece around something citable and a link stops looking like a favour.

Our observation on this host is do-follow outbound links in editorial content. That is the attribute, not the value: the 40 DA and 25k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.

Two comparisons decide whether brustmagazine.com at $80 is a good buy: this listing against the 88 other News & Media entries we index, and against the whole 2,000-site index. The gap between those two answers is where a price is either justified or inherited from a rate card nobody revisited.

Ranked against the 2,000 listings we index, brustmagazine.com sits in the top 81% for audience and the top 52% for authority, at $3.20 per thousand monthly visits. Inside the DA 40-49 band (703 listings) that price ranks 176th for value, which is the comparison to use: nobody competes with the whole index, they compete with the sites a buyer would book instead.

brustmagazine.com out-ranks 81% of the index on audience size (about 4.5× the index median) and 52% on authority. The placement costs $3.20 per thousand estimated visits, and cheaper per visit than 75% of the DA 40-49 band. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $80 is a good trade or just a listed one.

• Brand-proof pages where a citation from a title this size is the point of the exercise.
• Regulated or contested markets where a neutral publication carrying your name is worth more than a blog link.
• Recovery work after a penalty, when the profile needs plausible, editorial-looking citations fast.
• Do not buy this if your profile has no branded searches yet and this is meant to be the single link that changes that. One 40 DA placement on a News & Media site is a start, not a strategy.
• Do not buy this if you need the anchor to be your money keyword and the host is marked Do-follow. Attribute and anchor politics matter less than the page's survival, and a forced anchor is the easiest thing for an editor to change.

Pitch angle: an explainers-plus-data piece tied to a story cycle in your market, not a press release. That is the shape we take to a News & Media audience, because it is the version the host's own editor has a reason to keep.

• Put one link in the body Exactly one, in the sentence where the article needs the source. A second link to your own domain is the most common reason a piece gets rewritten before publication.
• Keep the tone flat No superlatives, no promises about outcomes, no invented before-and-after. The style that survives editorial review in News & Media is the style that sounds like someone reporting on their own work.
• Add a heading someone would search A question-style H2 phrased the way the reader phrases it. This is what lets the article rank on its own, which is the difference between a placement that gets crawled weekly and one that gets crawled yearly.

Anchor plan for this host

• brand or the person's name, once, in the first third of the article
• a naked URL only where the site's style allows it, which news desks rarely do mid-paragraph

• Disclosure policy. Whether the host labels paid contributions. A label costs you nothing in link value and protects the host from the penalty that removes the page.
• What happens on removal. brustmagazine.com is covered by the same 12-month replacement terms as every other listing, which means a dropped link is rebuilt and re-reported rather than argued about.
• Ownership. Several of the listings in our index turn out to share a publisher or an ad network. Relevance does not multiply when five links come from one hand, so we check the footer, the registration and the ad slots.
• Indexation of the host's recent output. We run site:brustmagazine.com and compare the count against the site's publishing rate. A property publishing weekly with a fraction of its pages indexed has a crawl or quality problem you would inherit.

1. You send the target URL and your angle The page you want the link to point at, the subject, and any author you want credited. Five minutes of input.
2. We confirm availability on brustmagazine.com Publisher slots move week to week, including on 40 DA properties. Nothing is promised until the section and the placement URL are confirmed, and we tell you before you pay if the slot has gone.
3. You approve the brief and the shortlist Where the host gives a choice of section or existing article, we send options with the numbers that matter: traffic, indexation, neighbours.
4. The article is drafted and edited for the host Written for brustmagazine.com's audience rather than for your keyword, then checked against the site's own style before submission.
5. The host publishes; we verify the live URL Placement live, correct target, link attribute as recorded, indexable. Only then does the order count as delivered.
6. You get the report, and the replacement cover starts PDF and CSV with the live URL, anchor, placement date and target page. Twelve-month replacement on the link itself, no ticket required.

If the article you want published needs expert authorship, data or photography, that work is included; if it needs a regulated-industry review, say so early, because it changes the timeline rather than the price.

What comes with this placement

• The article itself, drafted to the host's style and edited before submission.
• Live-URL verification, with a dated record of the placement.
• Anchor and target page exactly as approved in the brief, or the placement is not counted.
• 12-month replacement cover: if the link drops, we rebuild it.

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