Placing a link on roastmedia.co.uk

Mid-market at $75: the band where judgement about the site matters more than the invoice.

Lifestyle traffic is broad, low-intent and enormous, and the pages themselves compete on personality rather than depth. For link purposes that has a specific consequence: the article that gets shared, saved and re-cited is the one with a point of view, and the anonymous SEO-flavoured contribution is the one nobody reads. Editors can tell which is which in the first paragraph.

Within the Lifestyle section of the index — 72 listings, 40 median DA, 19.4k median traffic, $80 median price — this placement is 6% below the median on cost and about 2.2× the index median on audience. Listings in that section range from $60 at the cheap end, so the question is not whether $75 is high for a link, but whether it is high for this one.

The practical bar is low compared to news or health, so hold yourself to a higher one: real photographs, a named writer, one specific recommendation with a reason. That combination is rare enough to be published twice by different titles.

Our observation on this host is do-follow outbound links in editorial content. That is the attribute, not the value: the 41 DA and 12k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.

Two comparisons decide whether roastmedia.co.uk at $75 is a good buy: this listing against the 72 other Lifestyle 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 — 41 DA, 37 PA, 55 DR, 12,000 visits, $75, do-follow — is measured, dated September 2026, and available to you before you commit.

roastmedia.co.uk out-ranks 68% of the index on audience size (about 2.2× the index median) and 62% on authority. The placement costs $6.25 per thousand estimated visits, and mid-priced for a site carrying DA 40-49. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $75 is a good trade or just a listed one.

• Creators and consultants extending a personal brand outside their niche.
• Consumer and D2C brands building awareness alongside retail listings.
• Wellness and personal-care services where trust is decided by tone.
• Do not buy this as part of a burst. 7–12 days is the delivery window for one placement; a month's worth of placements across several hosts is the pattern that works.
• 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 interview or profile that puts your brand beside a person. That is the shape we take to a Lifestyle audience, because it is the version the host's own editor has a reason to keep.

• 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 $75 look cheap a year later.
• 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.
• 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.

Anchor plan for this host

• brand anchor in the final line, if the style guide permits a second
• the product or service name where the article recommends it, once

• 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.
• Indexation of the host's recent output. We run site:roastmedia.co.uk 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.
• 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.
• Whether the exact placement URL is indexable. A 41 DA domain happily serves noindexed contributor pages. We read the robots meta tag on the article template, not on the homepage.

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 roastmedia.co.uk 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 roastmedia.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.

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.
• White-label PDF + CSV report — forward it to a client unchanged.
• 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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