Guest post on gamevalourcom.com: the site brief

A 38 DA listing at $65 is the price of an experiment: if the article earns citations, you have found a channel; if not, you have lost one 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 8k 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.

Within the General section of the index — 1,576 listings, 39 median DA, 5k median traffic, $70 median price — this placement is 7% below the median on cost and about 1.5× the index median on audience. Listings in that section range from $30 at the cheap end, so the question is not whether $65 is high for a link, but whether it is high for this one.

Generalist inventory also varies more than any other kind, which is why the numbers in this brief matter more than the label. A 38 DA domain with 8k 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.

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 gamevalourcom.com at $65 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.

The arithmetic a buyer should see: 8,000 estimated visits a month, $65 per placement, so $8.12 per thousand visits for a do-follow link on a site scoring 38 DA and 33 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.

gamevalourcom.com out-ranks 59% of the index on audience size (about 1.5× the index median) and 36% on authority. The placement costs $8.12 per thousand estimated visits, and cheaper per visit than 63% of the DA 30-39 band. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $65 is a good trade or just a listed one.

• Thin profiles where diversity matters more than raw authority.
• Anyone testing guest posting before committing to a premium title.
• New domains that need a plausible first set of citations before anything ambitious.
• 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 38 DA placement on a General 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: a comparison of two options a reader is choosing between. 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.

• 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.
• Keep the tone flat No superlatives, no promises about outcomes, no invented before-and-after. The style that survives editorial review in General is the style that sounds like someone reporting on their own work.
• 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.

Anchor plan for this host

• one brand or URL anchor in the first half, and nothing else
• no two anchors to the same target page from one article

• Whether the exact placement URL is indexable. A 38 DA domain happily serves noindexed contributor pages. We read the robots meta tag on the article template, not on the homepage.
• Editorial activity. A site with 8k monthly visits and nothing published in six months is a decaying asset, and decaying assets get dropped from the index in batches.
• 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.
• Indexation of the host's recent output. We run site:gamevalourcom.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 gamevalourcom.com Publisher slots move week to week, including on 38 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 gamevalourcom.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.
• Link attribute verified on the published page and reported as found.
• Anchor and target page exactly as approved in the brief, or the placement is not counted.
• One contextual placement inside an article written for gamevalourcom.com's audience, not a link directory entry.

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