Guest post on runwithtrip.com: the site brief

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

Seasonality governs everything here. A placement published three months before the peak season for the destination accumulates internal links, refreshes and round-up mentions; the same article published in the off-season gets crawled and left alone. If the site covers rail routes, time the pitch to their planning window rather than to yours.

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 — 52 DA, 47 PA, 62 DR, 98,700 visits, $100, do-follow — is measured, dated September 2026, and available to you before you commit.

Travel publishing is affiliate-driven, so a clean editorial link is both easier to negotiate and more valuable than in most categories: readers trust a recommendation that does not earn the site a commission. Editors in this group like contributions with first-hand detail: the price of the bus, the name of the station, the reason the second hotel is better.

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 runwithtrip.com at $100 is a good buy: this listing against the 18 other Travel 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.

runwithtrip.com has 62 DR against an index median of 51, 98.7k monthly visits against a median of 5.5k, and a placement price of $100 against $70. Where those three numbers point in different directions, the traffic figure is usually the honest one: it is what a publisher has to protect, and it is what decays first when a site starts selling too much inventory.

runwithtrip.com out-ranks 95% of the index on audience size (about 17.9× the index median) and 83% on authority. The placement costs $1.01 per thousand estimated visits, and cheaper per visit than 94% of the DA 50-59 band. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $100 is a good trade or just a listed one.

• Hotels, tours and operators fighting OTAs for branded demand.
• Insurance and finance services for travellers, where content must be useful first.
• Travel-tech and booking platforms needing topical relevance beyond review sites.
• 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 52 DA placement on a Travel 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.

Pitch angle: a destination guide with transport, costs and a rainy-day plan. That is the shape we take to a Travel audience, because it is the version the host's own editor has a reason to keep.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Anchor plan for this host

• a booking or pricing page only if the anchor says what it is
• 'the hotel we stayed at' style anchors work and read naturally; keyword anchors do not

• 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.
• Indexation of the host's recent output. We run site:runwithtrip.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.
• 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.
• 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.

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 runwithtrip.com Publisher slots move week to week, including on 52 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 runwithtrip.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

• Anchor and target page exactly as approved in the brief, or the placement is not counted.
• 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.

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