Publishing on apexmagazine.co.uk — metrics, brief and price

A 39 DA listing at $85 is the price of an experiment: if the article earns citations, you have found a channel; if not, you have lost one invoice.

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.

Within the News & Media section of the index — 88 listings, 40 median DA, 31.3k median traffic, $75 median price — this placement is 13% above the median on cost and about 21.1× the index median on audience. Listings in that section range from $35 at the cheap end, so the question is not whether $85 is high for a link, but whether it is high for this one.

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 apexmagazine.co.uk at $85 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.

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 — 39 DA, 36 PA, 49 DR, 116,000 visits, $85, do-follow — is measured, dated September 2026, and available to you before you commit.

apexmagazine.co.uk out-ranks 96% of the index on audience size (about 21.1× the index median) and 42% on authority. The placement costs $0.73 per thousand estimated visits, and cheaper per visit than 96% of the DA 30-39 band. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $85 is a good trade or just a listed one.

• Recovery work after a penalty, when the profile needs plausible, editorial-looking citations fast.
• 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.
• Do not buy this if you need the anchor to be your money keyword and the host is marked Do-follow. Attribute and anchor politics matter less than the page's survival, and a forced anchor is the easiest thing for an editor to change.
• 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 reaction piece on a regulatory or platform change your industry is currently dealing with. 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.

• Name a real author A person with a title and a bio. Anonymous contributions on News & Media sites are the first thing an editor distrusts, and the first thing a reader discounts.
• 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.

Anchor plan for this host

• one descriptive anchor that repeats the headline's subject, never your commercial keyword
• brand or the person's name, once, in the first third of the article

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 apexmagazine.co.uk Publisher slots move week to week, including on 39 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 apexmagazine.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

• One contextual placement inside an article written for apexmagazine.co.uk's audience, not a link directory entry.
• The article itself, drafted to the host's style and edited before submission.
• 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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