Guest post on circlemagazine.co.uk: the site brief

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

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 27k 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.

circlemagazine.co.uk has 48 DR against an index median of 51, 27k 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.

Generalist inventory also varies more than any other kind, which is why the numbers in this brief matter more than the label. A 41 DA domain with 27k estimated monthly visits and Do-follow links is a different product from the same DA with a tenth of the traffic, and they are priced too close together in most catalogues.

Our observation on this host is do-follow outbound links in editorial content. That is the attribute, not the value: the 41 DA and 27k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.

Two comparisons decide whether circlemagazine.co.uk at $80 is a good buy: this listing against the 1,576 other General 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, circlemagazine.co.uk sits in the top 82% for audience and the top 62% for authority, at $2.96 per thousand monthly visits. Inside the DA 40-49 band (703 listings) that price ranks 166th for value, which is the comparison to use: nobody competes with the whole index, they compete with the sites a buyer would book instead.

circlemagazine.co.uk out-ranks 82% of the index on audience size (about 4.9× the index median) and 62% on authority. The placement costs $2.96 per thousand estimated visits, and cheaper per visit than 76% 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.

• New domains that need a plausible first set of citations before anything ambitious.
• Anyone testing guest posting before committing to a premium title.
• Thin profiles where diversity matters more than raw authority.
• 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.
• Do not buy this as part of a burst. 7–12 days is the delivery window for one placement; a month's worth of placements across several hosts is the pattern that works.

Pitch angle: a myth-busting piece on one belief your industry has to fight. That is the shape we take to a General audience, because it is the version the host's own editor has a reason to keep.

• Open with the thing you know One specific claim, a number or a dated decision, in the first two sentences. Editors in General positions decide whether to keep a contribution in about that long.
• 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.
• Include one thing nobody else has A table, a chart, a worked example, a photograph you took. This is what earns the citations that make the $80 look cheap a year later.

Anchor plan for this host

• one brand or URL anchor in the first half, and nothing else
• a descriptive anchor that repeats a phrase the article already uses naturally

• Indexation of the host's recent output. We run site:circlemagazine.co.uk 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.
• Link attribute on a live example. Not the pitch, not the rate card: the rel attribute on an outbound link in a real article published this month.
• What happens on removal. circlemagazine.co.uk 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.

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 circlemagazine.co.uk Publisher slots move week to week, including on 41 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 circlemagazine.co.uk'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.

The quoted $80 is our standard rate for this listing at the time of the September 2026 snapshot. Two things move it: whether the host still has contributor capacity that month, and whether the slot you want is a standalone article or a paragraph inside an existing page (niche edits on the same property are typically cheaper and faster).

What comes with this placement

• Availability confirmed on the exact URL before you are invoiced.
• Live-URL verification, with a dated record of the placement.
• One contextual placement inside an article written for circlemagazine.co.uk's audience, not a link directory entry.
• White-label PDF + CSV report — forward it to a client unchanged.

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