Publishing on foodseaters.com — metrics, brief and price

53 DA sits comfortably above the index median of 40, which is the level where editors start enforcing real standards.

The upside is durability: recipe and technique pages are queried forever and get linked by round-ups, so a contextual link inside a well-ranked evergreen food article compounds. Where the index shows 2.7k monthly visits on foodseaters.com, most of that is recipe search, and recipe search is the most stable traffic in food publishing.

Within the Food & Drink section of the index — 31 listings, 53 median DA, 4.2k median traffic, $40 median price — this placement is 25% below the median on cost and roughly 49% of the index median on audience. Listings in that section range from $20 at the cheap end, so the question is not whether $30 is high for a link, but whether it is high for this one.

Food is a category with a very high content bar and a very low tolerance for commercial insertions, because the best-performing pages are pictures and steps. A placement works when your brand is part of the ingredient list, the equipment or the sourcing story; it fails when a restaurant-supply paragraph appears inside a 14-step recipe. Choose the article shape before you choose the site.

Our observation on this host is do-follow outbound links in editorial content. That is the attribute, not the value: the 53 DA and 2.7k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.

Two comparisons decide whether foodseaters.com at $30 is a good buy: this listing against the 31 other Food & Drink 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 — 53 DA, 44 PA, 42 DR, 2,692 visits, $30, do-follow — is measured, dated September 2026, and available to you before you commit.

foodseaters.com out-ranks 31% of the index on audience size (roughly 49% of the index median) and 85% on authority. The placement costs $11.14 per thousand estimated visits, and mid-priced for a site carrying DA 50-59. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $30 is a good trade or just a listed one.

• Equipment and ingredient suppliers selling to cooks rather than traders.
• Food and drink producers who need retail-adjacent citations.
• Restaurants, cafés and venues with a strong local search footprint.
• 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 as part of a burst. 5–9 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 technique or ingredient explainer with the reasons behind the steps. That is the shape we take to a Food & Drink audience, because it is the version the host's own editor has a reason to keep.

• 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 $30 look cheap a year later.
• Keep the tone flat No superlatives, no promises about outcomes, no invented before-and-after. The style that survives editorial review in Food & Drink is the style that sounds like someone reporting on their own work.

Anchor plan for this host

• no generic recipe anchors; the reader does not need one
• 'where to buy' style anchor only if the page it leads to is a shop page for that product

• What happens on removal. foodseaters.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.
• 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.
• Indexation of the host's recent output. We run site:foodseaters.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.

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 foodseaters.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 foodseaters.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.

Rates on this kind of listing drift with the host's own demand, so $30 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 Food & Drink section of our index at the same budget is easy to arrange.

What comes with this placement

• Anchor and target page exactly as approved in the brief, or the placement is not counted.
• Live-URL verification, with a dated record of the placement.
• The article itself, drafted to the host's style and edited before submission.
• White-label PDF + CSV report — forward it to a client unchanged.

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