Placing a link on 2amagazine.com

Premium pricing at $95, which we only recommend when the article you place would have been published anyway.

News sites are the hardest place to earn a body link and the easiest place to earn a mention. Editorial staff strip links from contributions more often than any other publisher type, and the ones that survive are the links that carry a source, a figure or a document a reader might want. Build the piece around something citable and a link stops looking like a favour.

2amagazine.com has 38 DR against an index median of 51, 150k monthly visits against a median of 5.5k, and a placement price of $95 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.

Titles in this group are usually run by small teams with high volume, so turnaround depends on their queue rather than on your brief. A short, tightly edited 700-900 word contribution with one link and a named author clears desks that would reject a 2,000-word marketing essay with four.

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 2amagazine.com at $95 is a good buy: this listing against the 88 other News & Media 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.

Ranked against the 2,000 listings we index, 2amagazine.com sits in the top 97% for audience and the top 94% for authority, at $0.63 per thousand monthly visits. Inside the DA 50-59 band (302 listings) that price ranks 9th for value, which is the comparison to use: nobody competes with the whole index, they compete with the sites a buyer would book instead.

2amagazine.com out-ranks 97% of the index on audience size (about 27.3× the index median) and 94% on authority. The placement costs $0.63 per thousand estimated visits, and cheaper per visit than 97% of the DA 50-59 band. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $95 is a good trade or just a listed one.

• Regulated or contested markets where a neutral publication carrying your name is worth more than a blog link.
• Brand-proof pages where a citation from a title this size is the point of the exercise.
• Recovery work after a penalty, when the profile needs plausible, editorial-looking citations fast.
• 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 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 local angle: what your business changes for readers in the place the title covers. That is the shape we take to a News & Media 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 $95 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.
• 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.

Anchor plan for this host

• a naked URL only where the site's style allows it, which news desks rarely do mid-paragraph
• one descriptive anchor that repeats the headline's subject, never your commercial keyword

• 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.
• What happens on removal. 2amagazine.com is covered by the same 12-month replacement terms as every other listing, which means a dropped link is rebuilt and re-reported rather than argued about.
• Editorial activity. A site with 150k monthly visits and nothing published in six months is a decaying asset, and decaying assets get dropped from the index in batches.
• 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.

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 2amagazine.com Publisher slots move week to week, including on 58 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 2amagazine.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

• Link attribute verified on the published page and reported as found.
• 12-month replacement cover: if the link drops, we rebuild it.
• The article itself, drafted to the host's style and edited before submission.
• One contextual placement inside an article written for 2amagazine.com's audience, not a link directory entry.

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