Publishing on photosweek.com — metrics, brief and price

At $40 this is a budget listing; the maths still has to work, and it works when the page is topical and the host is active.

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 10.6k 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 43% below the median on cost and about 1.9× the index median on audience. Listings in that section range from $30 at the cheap end, so the question is not whether $40 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 47 DA domain with 10.6k 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 photosweek.com at $40 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.

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 — 47 DA, 37 PA, 41 DR, 10,600 visits, $40, do-follow — is measured, dated September 2026, and available to you before you commit.

photosweek.com out-ranks 65% of the index on audience size (about 1.9× the index median) and 79% on authority. The placement costs $3.77 per thousand estimated visits, and cheaper per visit than 71% of the DA 40-49 band. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $40 is a good trade or just a listed one.

• Anyone testing guest posting before committing to a premium title.
• Agencies filling a monthly quota with links nobody will object to.
• Thin profiles where diversity matters more than raw authority.
• 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 your profile has no branded searches yet and this is meant to be the single link that changes that. One 47 DA placement on a General site is a start, not a strategy.

Pitch angle: a local or regional piece with detail a generalist cannot fake. 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.

• Send the anchor text in the draft Not afterwards. Once the editor has set the copy, changing the anchor is a new request and a new reason for the link to end up in a bio block.
• Add a heading someone would search A question-style H2 phrased the way the reader phrases it. This is what lets the article rank on its own, which is the difference between a placement that gets crawled weekly and one that gets crawled yearly.
• Name a real author A person with a title and a bio. Anonymous contributions on General sites are the first thing an editor distrusts, and the first thing a reader discounts.

Anchor plan for this host

• if you already have links from similar sites, vary the anchor shape entirely
• one brand or URL anchor in the first half, and nothing else

• Indexation of the host's recent output. We run site:photosweek.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.
• 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.
• Whether the exact placement URL is indexable. A 47 DA domain happily serves noindexed contributor pages. We read the robots meta tag on the article template, not on the homepage.
• 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 photosweek.com Publisher slots move week to week, including on 47 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 photosweek.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

• Link attribute verified on the published page and reported as found.
• One contextual placement inside an article written for photosweek.com's audience, not a link directory entry.
• Availability confirmed on the exact URL before you are invoiced.
• 12-month replacement cover: if the link drops, we rebuild it.

Browse the index: all 2,000 briefs · General listings · domains beginning P (100) · DA 40-49 band (703)