Placing a link on dotimes.co.uk

At 42 DA, judge the placement on the page and the neighbours, not on the score.

What makes a media placement behave differently from a blog placement is the traffic shape: a spike in the first 48 hours, then almost nothing, then a slow trickle that search supplies for months. That is a fine trade if you want proof your brand can be quoted; it is a poor trade if you bought the slot hoping for a permanent contextual link. Confirm the permalink will stay in the site's archive before you commit.

Within the News & Media section of the index — 88 listings, 40 median DA, 31.3k median traffic, $75 median price — this placement is within a few percent of the median on cost and about 2.2× the index median on audience. Listings in that section range from $35 at the cheap end, so the question is not whether $75 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.

Our observation on this host is do-follow outbound links in editorial content. That is the attribute, not the value: the 42 DA and 12k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.

Two comparisons decide whether dotimes.co.uk at $75 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 — 42 DA, 37 PA, 50 DR, 12,000 visits, $75, do-follow — is measured, dated September 2026, and available to you before you commit.

dotimes.co.uk out-ranks 68% of the index on audience size (about 2.2× the index median) and 70% on authority. The placement costs $6.25 per thousand estimated visits, and mid-priced for a site carrying DA 40-49. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $75 is a good trade or just a listed one.

• Launch and funding moments that benefit from a spike, not a permanent link.
• Recovery work after a penalty, when the profile needs plausible, editorial-looking citations fast.
• Brand-proof pages where a citation from a title this size is the point of the exercise.
• 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 as part of a burst. 7–12 days is the delivery window for one placement; a month's worth of placements across several hosts is the pattern that works.

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.

• Open with the thing you know One specific claim, a number or a dated decision, in the first two sentences. Editors in News & Media positions decide whether to keep a contribution in about that long.
• 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.
• 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.

Anchor plan for this host

• brand or the person's name, once, in the first third of the article
• a naked URL only where the site's style allows it, which news desks rarely do mid-paragraph

• Disclosure policy. Whether the host labels paid contributions. A label costs you nothing in link value and protects the host from the penalty that removes the page.
• Whether the exact placement URL is indexable. A 42 DA domain happily serves noindexed contributor pages. We read the robots meta tag on the article template, not on the homepage.
• Template stability. Redesigns and CMS migrations kill placements. We check the age of the site's oldest surviving article as a proxy for how long a page there tends to live.
• 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.

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 dotimes.co.uk Publisher slots move week to week, including on 42 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 dotimes.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.

Rates on this kind of listing drift with the host's own demand, so $75 is a current figure rather than a locked one. Volume changes the maths: a second placement on the same domain is usually refused, whereas a second placement across the News & Media section of our index at the same budget is easy to arrange.

What comes with this placement

• Live-URL verification, with a dated record of the placement.
• One contextual placement inside an article written for dotimes.co.uk's audience, not a link directory entry.
• 12-month replacement cover: if the link drops, we rebuild it.
• Availability confirmed on the exact URL before you are invoiced.

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