Publishing on getcoursera.com — metrics, brief and price

$40 is cheap for a 54 DA placement, and the usual reason is nofollow policy, small traffic, or both.

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.

Within the Education section of the index — 30 listings, 54 median DA, 3.1k median traffic, $40 median price — this placement is within a few percent of the median on cost and roughly 31% of the index median on audience. Listings in that section range from $20 at the cheap end, so the question is not whether $40 is high for a link, but whether it is high for this one.

Also expect strict link limits, usually one, and frequent nofollow rules on institutional sites. A 54 DA educational page with 1.7k 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 getcoursera.com at $40 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.

Two things the metrics cannot tell you, so we say them plainly: whether the host will still accept a contribution article this month, and whether the section your piece lands in is crawled weekly or monthly. Everything else on this page — 54 DA, 44 PA, 42 DR, 1,681 visits, $40, do-follow — is measured, dated September 2026, and available to you before you commit.

getcoursera.com out-ranks 21% of the index on audience size (roughly 31% of the index median) and 87% on authority. The placement costs $23.80 per thousand estimated visits, and mid-priced for a site carrying DA 50-59. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $40 is a good trade or just a listed one.

• Universities, colleges and sixth forms needing reference-style citations.
• EdTech and course providers selling to institutions rather than impulse buyers.
• Tutors and exam boards targeting seasonal query spikes.
• 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 54 DA placement on a Education site is a start, not a strategy.
• Do not buy this if the site's topical distance from your market needs three paragraphs of explanation. Relevance has to be obvious to a crawler reading the neighbourhood.

Pitch angle: a study-skills or curriculum piece written by someone who teaches it. 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.

• 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 $40 look cheap a year later.
• Keep the tone flat No superlatives, no promises about outcomes, no invented before-and-after. The style that survives editorial review in Education is the style that sounds like someone reporting on their own work.
• Name a real author A person with a title and a bio. Anonymous contributions on Education sites are the first thing an editor distrusts, and the first thing a reader discounts.

Anchor plan for this host

• the institution name in the author line
• no enrolment or fee keywords in the anchor; they trip both editors and filters

• 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.
• What happens on removal. getcoursera.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.
• Indexation of the host's recent output. We run site:getcoursera.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.
• 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.

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 getcoursera.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 getcoursera.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

• 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.
• White-label PDF + CSV report — forward it to a client unchanged.
• One contextual placement inside an article written for getcoursera.com's audience, not a link directory entry.

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