Publishing on thetripsadvisors.com — metrics, brief and price

Entry price at $20, which is the correct way to buy authority you have not yet verified.

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 backpacking, time the pitch to their planning window rather than to yours.

Within the Travel section of the index — 18 listings, 54 median DA, 3.9k median traffic, $30 median price — this placement is 33% below the median on cost and in line with the index median on audience. Listings in that section range from $20 at the cheap end, so the question is not whether $20 is high for a link, but whether it is high for this one.

Because these pages are updated, check what an update does to a placement. On aggressive sites the URL persists but content gets rewritten, and your paragraph is the first thing to go. Ask for a written note of the commitment before publishing and take a dated screenshot; ours is in the report.

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 thetripsadvisors.com at $20 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.

The arithmetic a buyer should see: 5,621 estimated visits a month, $20 per placement, so $3.56 per thousand visits for a do-follow link on a site scoring 53 DA and 48 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.

thetripsadvisors.com out-ranks 51% of the index on audience size (in line with the index median) and 85% on authority. The placement costs $3.56 per thousand estimated visits, and cheaper per visit than 86% of the DA 50-59 band. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $20 is a good trade or just a listed one.

• Insurance and finance services for travellers, where content must be useful first.
• Tourism boards and regional businesses with seasonal campaigns.
• Travel-tech and booking platforms needing topical relevance beyond review sites.
• 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.
• 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 53 DA placement on a Travel site is a start, not a strategy.

Pitch angle: a seasonality and crowds breakdown with real timings. 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.
• Keep the tone flat No superlatives, no promises about outcomes, no invented before-and-after. The style that survives editorial review in Travel is the style that sounds like someone reporting on their own work.
• 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

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

• 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.
• Whether the exact placement URL is indexable. A 53 DA domain happily serves noindexed contributor pages. We read the robots meta tag on the article template, not on the homepage.
• 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.

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 thetripsadvisors.com Publisher slots move week to week, including on 53 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 thetripsadvisors.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.

The quoted $20 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

• 12-month replacement cover: if the link drops, we rebuild it.
• Live-URL verification, with a dated record of the placement.
• The article itself, drafted to the host's style and edited before submission.
• One contextual placement inside an article written for thetripsadvisors.com's audience, not a link directory entry.

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