blogexample.com: a contextual link, and whether it is worth $90

At 40 DA, judge the placement on the page and the neighbours, not on the score.

Where blogexample.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.

Within the General section of the index — 1,576 listings, 39 median DA, 5k median traffic, $70 median price — this placement is 29% above the median on cost and about 12.5× the index median on audience. Listings in that section range from $30 at the cheap end, so the question is not whether $90 is high for a link, but whether it is high for this one.

Generalist inventory also varies more than any other kind, which is why the numbers in this brief matter more than the label. A 40 DA domain with 68.9k estimated monthly visits and Do-follow links is a different product from the same DA with a tenth of the traffic, and they are priced too close together in most catalogues.

Our observation on this host is do-follow outbound links in editorial content. That is the attribute, not the value: the 40 DA and 68.9k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.

Two comparisons decide whether blogexample.com at $90 is a good buy: this listing against the 1,576 other General 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: 68,900 estimated visits a month, $90 per placement, so $1.31 per thousand visits for a do-follow link on a site scoring 40 DA and 35 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.

blogexample.com out-ranks 93% of the index on audience size (about 12.5× the index median) and 52% on authority. The placement costs $1.31 per thousand estimated visits, and cheaper per visit than 91% of the DA 40-49 band. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $90 is a good trade or just a listed one.

• Anyone testing guest posting before committing to a premium title.
• Agencies filling a monthly quota with links nobody will object to.
• New domains that need a plausible first set of citations before anything ambitious.
• 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 40 DA placement on a General site is a start, not a strategy.
• 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.

Pitch angle: a practical guide that solves one named problem for your market. That is the shape we take to a General audience, because it is the version the host's own editor has a reason to keep.

• Open with the thing you know One specific claim, a number or a dated decision, in the first two sentences. Editors in General positions decide whether to keep a contribution in about that long.
• 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.
• 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 $90 look cheap a year later.

Anchor plan for this host

• one brand or URL anchor in the first half, and nothing else
• no two anchors to the same target page from one 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.
• Indexation of the host's recent output. We run site:blogexample.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.
• 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 blogexample.com Publisher slots move week to week, including on 40 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 blogexample.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 $90 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

• White-label PDF + CSV report — forward it to a client unchanged.
• Availability confirmed on the exact URL before you are invoiced.
• One contextual placement inside an article written for blogexample.com's audience, not a link directory entry.
• Link attribute verified on the published page and reported as found.

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