Publishing on ketofordudes.com — metrics, brief and price

At 41 DA, judge the placement on the page and the neighbours, not on the score.

The upside is durability: recipe and technique pages are queried forever and get linked by round-ups, so a contextual link inside a well-ranked evergreen food article compounds. Where the index shows 3.8k monthly visits on ketofordudes.com, most of that is recipe search, and recipe search is the most stable traffic in food publishing.

Within the Food & Drink section of the index — 31 listings, 53 median DA, 4.2k median traffic, $40 median price — this placement is 12% above the median on cost and roughly 70% of the index median on audience. Listings in that section range from $20 at the cheap end, so the question is not whether $45 is high for a link, but whether it is high for this one.

Food is a category with a very high content bar and a very low tolerance for commercial insertions, because the best-performing pages are pictures and steps. A placement works when your brand is part of the ingredient list, the equipment or the sourcing story; it fails when a restaurant-supply paragraph appears inside a 14-step recipe. Choose the article shape before you choose the site.

Our observation on this host is do-follow outbound links in editorial content. That is the attribute, not the value: the 41 DA and 3.8k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.

Two comparisons decide whether ketofordudes.com at $45 is a good buy: this listing against the 31 other Food & Drink 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, ketofordudes.com sits in the top 40% for audience and the top 62% for authority, at $11.73 per thousand monthly visits. Inside the DA 40-49 band (703 listings) that price ranks 442nd for value, which is the comparison to use: nobody competes with the whole index, they compete with the sites a buyer would book instead.

ketofordudes.com out-ranks 40% of the index on audience size (roughly 70% of the index median) and 62% on authority. The placement costs $11.73 per thousand estimated visits, and mid-priced for a site carrying DA 40-49. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $45 is a good trade or just a listed one.

• Delivery and meal-kit brands competing on review-style queries.
• Food and drink producers who need retail-adjacent citations.
• Equipment and ingredient suppliers selling to cooks rather than traders.
• 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. 5–9 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 product test that names what it would not buy. That is the shape we take to a Food & Drink audience, because it is the version the host's own editor has a reason to keep.

• 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.
• Name a real author A person with a title and a bio. Anonymous contributions on Food & Drink sites are the first thing an editor distrusts, and the first thing a reader discounts.
• 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.

Anchor plan for this host

• no generic recipe anchors; the reader does not need one
• 'where to buy' style anchor only if the page it leads to is a shop page for that product

• Indexation of the host's recent output. We run site:ketofordudes.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.
• 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. ketofordudes.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 ketofordudes.com 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 ketofordudes.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.
• The article itself, drafted to the host's style and edited before submission.
• One contextual placement inside an article written for ketofordudes.com's audience, not a link directory entry.
• Availability confirmed on the exact URL before you are invoiced.

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