At 42 DA, judge the placement on the page and the neighbours, not on the score.
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 1.8k 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.
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, 34 PA, 42 DR, 1,800 visits, $60, do-follow — is measured, dated September 2026, and available to you before you commit.
Where sumosearchpro.com 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 42 DA and 1.8k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.