Placing a link on educationyear.com

At $45 this is a budget listing; the maths still has to work, and it works when the page is topical and the host is active.

Anything that reads like a course advertisement gets cut. Write the advice first, and let the institution's name appear once in context. Where the host is affiliated with a college or university, expect the editor to ask whether the contribution has an academic or professional author; a named lecturer with one line of credentials passes what a content writer cannot.

educationyear.com has 40 DR against an index median of 51, 2.5k monthly visits against a median of 5.5k, and a placement price of $45 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.

Also expect strict link limits, usually one, and frequent nofollow rules on institutional sites. A 54 DA educational page with 2.5k monthly visits is worth having in your profile for plausibility and citation, and you should not expect it to shift a competitive keyword on its own.

The index lists this property's editorial links as followed. Availability of a followed link changes with the site's monetisation decisions, so we confirm the tag on the live URL before counting delivery.

Two comparisons decide whether educationyear.com at $45 is a good buy: this listing against the 30 other Education 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, educationyear.com sits in the top 30% for audience and the top 87% for authority, at $17.99 per thousand monthly visits. Inside the DA 50-59 band (302 listings) that price ranks 215th for value, which is the comparison to use: nobody competes with the whole index, they compete with the sites a buyer would book instead.

educationyear.com out-ranks 30% of the index on audience size (roughly 45% of the index median) and 87% on authority. The placement costs $17.99 per thousand estimated visits, and mid-priced for a site carrying DA 50-59. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $45 is a good trade or just a listed one.

• Campus-adjacent services: accommodation, lending, relocation.
• Universities, colleges and sixth forms needing reference-style citations.
• EdTech and course providers selling to institutions rather than impulse buyers.
• Do not buy this as part of a burst. 5–9 days is the delivery window for one placement; a month's worth of placements across several hosts is the pattern that works.
• 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: a guide to a qualification that corrects a common misunderstanding. That is the shape we take to a Education audience, because it is the version the host's own editor has a reason to keep.

• Write 900–1,300 words Long enough to be worth crawling and citing, short enough that a real desk will read all of it. Anything longer gets skimmed and trimmed, and trimming is where links go.
• 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 $45 look cheap a year later.

Anchor plan for this host

• the programme or resource name, once, in the body
• no enrolment or fee keywords in the anchor; they trip both editors and filters

• Neighbour content on the same section. The twelve articles around yours set the context search engines will use to judge the link. If they are all sponsored posts on unrelated topics, the slot is worth less than the price says.
• Anchor history. We pull the anchors other sites have bought there. If the last twenty were all money phrases, a brand anchor from you will look natural, which is the rare and useful direction.
• 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. educationyear.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.

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 educationyear.com Publisher slots move week to week, including on 54 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 educationyear.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.

Rates on this kind of listing drift with the host's own demand, so $45 is a current figure rather than a locked one. Volume changes the maths: a second placement on the same domain is usually refused, whereas a second placement across the Education section of our index at the same budget is easy to arrange.

What comes with this placement

• White-label PDF + CSV report — forward it to a client unchanged.
• Live-URL verification, with a dated record of the placement.
• Link attribute verified on the published page and reported as found.
• Availability confirmed on the exact URL before you are invoiced.

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