General · DA 36 · 1.9k visits a month

Publishing on piviturf.co.uk — metrics, brief and price

One contextual link inside a General article on piviturf.co.uk, at $60, with the placement verified live before it counts as delivered. The brief covers the metrics, the article shape that survives this host's desk, and the checks we run before we send anything.

36DA (our index)
37PA · placement page
51DR · link profile
1.9kest. visits / month
$60per placement
Do-followeditorial link type
Niche
General
Authority band
DA 30-39
Traffic band
1.9k/mo
Cost per 1,000 visits
$31.58
Typical turnaround
7–12 days
Audience language
English
Registered market
the United Kingdom
Value rank in band
608th of 892

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DA, DR and traffic come from our own index snapshot (September 2026) and are recalculated when a slot is booked; PA is our internal page-level score for the host's contributor templates, not a third-party metric. Prices are per placement in USD and move with publisher availability. Nothing here is a statement from piviturf.co.uk or an assurance of rankings — link building improves your inputs, not search engines’ outputs.

The placement

What a link from piviturf.co.uk actually is

A 36 DA listing at $60 is the price of an experiment: if the article earns citations, you have found a channel; if not, you have lost one invoice.

There is a second job these placements do that is worth naming: they make a young or thin profile look normal. A domain that acquires 36-level links from a spread of ordinary publications, in drips, over months, looks like a business that has been around. A domain that acquires forty links from aggressive networks in a fortnight looks like a campaign, and it is the pattern rather than the individual link that gets noticed.

Within the General section of the index — 1,576 listings, 39 median DA, 5k median traffic, $70 median price — this placement is 14% below the median on cost and roughly 35% of the index median on audience. Listings in that section range from $30 at the cheap end, so the question is not whether $60 is high for a link, but whether it is high for this one.

Where piviturf.co.uk is not a topical match for your market, buy it for that plausibility and for whatever brand exposure comes free, and put your exact-match anchors on the sites that genuinely cover your subject. That one discipline is the difference between a general guest post strengthening a profile and the same link making it look synthetic.

Our observation on this host is do-follow outbound links in editorial content. That is the attribute, not the value: the 36 DA and 1.9k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.

In context

Reading piviturf.co.uk's metrics against the market

Two comparisons decide whether piviturf.co.uk at $60 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.

Metricpiviturf.co.ukGeneral medianWhole index
Domain Authority363940
PA — our page-level score37—clamped to the host’s DA band
DR — linking profile51—51
Est. monthly visits1.9k5k5.5k
Placement price$60$70$70
Cost per 1,000 visits$31.58$14$10.15
Traffic rank of 2,000 listings#1,543—1 = highest traffic
Price rank of 2,000 listings#1,349—1 = cheapest

The arithmetic a buyer should see: 1,900 estimated visits a month, $60 per placement, so $31.58 per thousand visits for a do-follow link on a site scoring 36 DA and 37 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.

piviturf.co.uk out-ranks 23% of the index on audience size (roughly 35% of the index median) and 21% on authority. The placement costs $31.58 per thousand estimated visits, and mid-priced for a site carrying DA 30-39. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $60 is a good trade or just a listed one.

Suitability

Who should place here

  • Local and service businesses whose market has few specialist publications left.
  • New domains that need a plausible first set of citations before anything ambitious.
  • Agencies filling a monthly quota with links nobody will object to.
  • 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 36 DA placement on a General 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.
Content brief

What to submit, and what gets cut

Pitch angle: a myth-busting piece on one belief your industry has to fight. 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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Open with the thing you know One specific claim, a number or a dated decision, in the first two sentences. Editors in General positions decide whether to keep a contribution in about that long.

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
Pre-order checks

What we look at before booking a slot

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Template stability. Redesigns and CMS migrations kill placements. We check the age of the site's oldest surviving article as a proxy for how long a page there tends to live.
Delivery

What happens after you order

  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 piviturf.co.uk Publisher slots move week to week, including on 36 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 piviturf.co.uk'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.
Pricing

The money question

The quoted $60 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

  • White-label PDF + CSV report — forward it to a client unchanged.
  • Availability confirmed on the exact URL before you are invoiced.
  • Live-URL verification, with a dated record of the placement.
  • 12-month replacement cover: if the link drops, we rebuild it.
FAQ

Questions about a piviturf.co.uk placement

Not when they are spread out, mixed with brand and URL anchors, and separated by a few months. What reads as bought is a block of exact-match anchors arriving between two crawl dates. We drip placements and vary anchor shapes for exactly this reason; the delivery window on this page (7–12 days) exists because pacing is part of the work.

By the tests we run, no: 1.9k estimated monthly visits, a 36 DA score and 51 DR are not the shape of a network built to sell links, and the site's own publishing activity is visible. What we cannot certify is what happens after our snapshot — a site can be sold, a section can be converted into a link shop, a CMS migration can drop a page. That is why the live URL is re-checked before delivery and why the replacement cover exists.

DA 36 describes the domain. The PA figure here (37) is our own page-level score for the templates that would carry your placement: how deep the site links them, how much of the domain's crawl budget and internal weight reaches them, how old and how referenced they are. A site can hold 36 DA while its contributor template scores 37, and it is the template that your link sits in.

Rebuilt and re-reported, under the same 12-month cover as every placement in the index. Links drop for boring reasons — redesigns, content pruning, a host losing interest in contributor content — and piviturf.co.uk is no more immune than a 36 DA site usually is. We monitor rather than waiting for you to notice.

Mechanically: DA 36 against a median of 39, 1.9k monthly visits against 5k, $60 against a median of $70. That puts this listing 14% below the median on price and below the index median on audience within its own section of the index, which is the only comparison worth making when you are spending $60.

Where the host asks for it, yes, and we would rather you knew that in advance than found it on the published page. A disclosure label has not cost any client of ours a placement's value; an undisclosed one that gets quietly removed has cost several.

Book this slot, or ask for something closer to your market

Send the URL you want the link to point at and we confirm availability on piviturf.co.uk before you are invoiced — or we shortlist three comparable listings from the General section of the index instead.

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