General · DA 42 · 262k visits a month

pureprairiefarm.com: what a guest post here actually buys you

pureprairiefarm.com is a General publication running at DA 42 with 262k estimated monthly visits, and one contextual placement priced at $100. Everything below is computed from our own index snapshot; the two things we cannot verify in advance — the editor's mood and the exact publish date — are flagged where they apply.

42DA (our index)
35PA · placement page
62DR · link profile
262kest. visits / month
$100per placement
Do-followeditorial link type
Niche
General
Authority band
DA 40-49
Traffic band
262k/mo
Cost per 1,000 visits
$0.38
Typical turnaround
10–16 days
Audience language
English
Registered market
Not stated
Value rank in band
9th of 703

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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 pureprairiefarm.com or an assurance of rankings — link building improves your inputs, not search engines’ outputs.

The placement

What a link from pureprairiefarm.com actually is

Premium pricing at $100, which we only recommend when the article you place would have been published anyway.

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 42-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 43% above the median on cost and about 47.6× the index median on audience. Listings in that section range from $30 at the cheap end, so the question is not whether $100 is high for a link, but whether it is high for this one.

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 262k 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.

Our observation on this host is do-follow outbound links in editorial content. That is the attribute, not the value: the 42 DA and 262k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.

In context

How these figures compare

Two comparisons decide whether pureprairiefarm.com at $100 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.

Metricpureprairiefarm.comGeneral medianWhole index
Domain Authority423940
PA — our page-level score35—clamped to the host’s DA band
DR — linking profile62—51
Est. monthly visits262k5k5.5k
Placement price$100$70$70
Cost per 1,000 visits$0.38$14$10.15
Traffic rank of 2,000 listings#23—1 = highest traffic
Price rank of 2,000 listings#28—1 = cheapest

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 — 42 DA, 35 PA, 62 DR, 262,000 visits, $100, do-follow — is measured, dated September 2026, and available to you before you commit.

pureprairiefarm.com out-ranks 99% of the index on audience size (about 47.6× the index median) and 70% on authority. The placement costs $0.38 per thousand estimated visits, and cheaper per visit than 99% of the DA 40-49 band. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $100 is a good trade or just a listed one.

Suitability

Buy it if, skip it if

  • Anyone testing guest posting before committing to a premium title.
  • Local and service businesses whose market has few specialist publications left.
  • New domains that need a plausible first set of citations before anything ambitious.
  • 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.
  • 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.
Content brief

The content shape that survives this desk

Pitch angle: a comparison of two options a reader is choosing between. 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.
  • 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.
  • Keep the tone flat No superlatives, no promises about outcomes, no invented before-and-after. The style that survives editorial review in General is the style that sounds like someone reporting on their own work.

Anchor plan for this host

  • if you already have links from similar sites, vary the anchor shape entirely
  • a descriptive anchor that repeats a phrase the article already uses naturally
Pre-order checks

What we look at before booking a slot

  • 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.
  • Whether the exact placement URL is indexable. A 42 DA domain happily serves noindexed contributor pages. We read the robots meta tag on the article template, not on the homepage.
  • Indexation of the host's recent output. We run site:pureprairiefarm.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.
  • 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.
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 pureprairiefarm.com Publisher slots move week to week, including on 42 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 pureprairiefarm.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.
Pricing

The money question

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

  • 12-month replacement cover: if the link drops, we rebuild it.
  • Link attribute verified on the published page and reported as found.
  • 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.
FAQ

Questions about a pureprairiefarm.com placement

Compare it with the market rather than the label. In our index the median general listing is priced at $70 with a median DA of 39 and median traffic of 5k, which puts pureprairiefarm.com 43% above the median and about 47.6× the index median. If the article you place there is specific enough to be cited by someone else, you have bought an asset. If it is filler, you have bought 42 points of something nobody reads.

By the tests we run, no: 262k estimated monthly visits, a 42 DA score and 62 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 42 describes the domain. The PA figure here (35) 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 42 DA while its contributor template scores 35, 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 pureprairiefarm.com is no more immune than a 42 DA site usually is. We monitor rather than waiting for you to notice.

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.

Mechanically: DA 42 against a median of 39, 262k monthly visits against 5k, $100 against a median of $70. That puts this listing 43% above the median on price and well above the index median on audience within its own section of the index, which is the only comparison worth making when you are spending $100.

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 pureprairiefarm.com before you are invoiced — or we shortlist three comparable listings from the General section of the index instead.

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