Traffic in the index is under 2,000 monthly visits for this listing, so treat it as profile filler: useful in a mix, indefensible as a centrepiece at $70.
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 64-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.
Ranked against the 2,000 listings we index, educationalnewsdaily.com sits in the top 23% for audience and the top 98% for authority, at $36.84 per thousand monthly visits. Inside the DA 60-69 band (77 listings) that price ranks 51st for value, which is the comparison to use: nobody competes with the whole index, they compete with the sites a buyer would book instead.
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 1.9k 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 64 DA and 1.9k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.