Placing a link on mitchnews.com

31.6k monthly visits is a steady, readable audience, roughly about 5.7× the index median compared with the index median of 5.5k.

News sites are the hardest place to earn a body link and the easiest place to earn a mention. Editorial staff strip links from contributions more often than any other publisher type, and the ones that survive are the links that carry a source, a figure or a document a reader might want. Build the piece around something citable and a link stops looking like a favour.

Within the News & Media section of the index — 88 listings, 40 median DA, 31.3k median traffic, $75 median price — this placement is 40% below the median on cost and about 5.7× the index median on audience. Listings in that section range from $35 at the cheap end, so the question is not whether $45 is high for a link, but whether it is high for this one.

Titles in this group are usually run by small teams with high volume, so turnaround depends on their queue rather than on your brief. A short, tightly edited 700-900 word contribution with one link and a named author clears desks that would reject a 2,000-word marketing essay with four.

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 mitchnews.com at $45 is a good buy: this listing against the 88 other News & Media 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 — 61 DA, 59 PA, 71 DR, 31,600 visits, $45, do-follow — is measured, dated September 2026, and available to you before you commit.

mitchnews.com out-ranks 84% of the index on audience size (about 5.7× the index median) and 96% on authority. The placement costs $1.42 per thousand estimated visits, and cheaper per visit than 95% of the DA 60-69 band. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $45 is a good trade or just a listed one.

• Regulated or contested markets where a neutral publication carrying your name is worth more than a blog link.
• Brand-proof pages where a citation from a title this size is the point of the exercise.
• Launch and funding moments that benefit from a spike, not a permanent link.
• 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 if the page it would sit on is already crowded with five other commercial links — we will usually flag that at the availability check and offer a different section.

Pitch angle: an opinion-style contribution from a named person at your company, with a real bio. That is the shape we take to a News & Media audience, because it is the version the host's own editor has a reason to keep.

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

• one descriptive anchor that repeats the headline's subject, never your commercial keyword
• brand or the person's name, once, in the first third of the article

• Ownership. Several of the listings in our index turn out to share a publisher or an ad network. Relevance does not multiply when five links come from one hand, so we check the footer, the registration and the ad slots.
• 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.
• What happens on removal. mitchnews.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.
• 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 mitchnews.com Publisher slots move week to week, including on 61 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 mitchnews.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.

The quoted $45 is our standard rate for this listing at the time of the September 2026 snapshot. Two things move it: whether the host still has contributor capacity that month, and whether the slot you want is a standalone article or a paragraph inside an existing page (niche edits on the same property are typically cheaper and faster).

What comes with this placement

• 12-month replacement cover: if the link drops, we rebuild it.
• Anchor and target page exactly as approved in the brief, or the placement is not counted.
• Availability confirmed on the exact URL before you are invoiced.
• Link attribute verified on the published page and reported as found.

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