forwardingnews.com: a contextual link, and whether it is worth $85

Premium pricing at $85, which we only recommend when the article you place would have been published anyway.

There is a second job these placements do that is worth naming: they make a young or thin profile look normal. A domain that acquires 39-level links from a spread of ordinary publications, in drips, over months, looks like a business that has been around. A domain that acquires forty links from aggressive networks in a fortnight looks like a campaign, and it is the pattern rather than the individual link that gets noticed.

forwardingnews.com has 56 DR against an index median of 51, 35.9k monthly visits against a median of 5.5k, and a placement price of $85 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.

Generalist inventory also varies more than any other kind, which is why the numbers in this brief matter more than the label. A 39 DA domain with 35.9k 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 39 DA and 35.9k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.

Two comparisons decide whether forwardingnews.com at $85 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.

Ranked against the 2,000 listings we index, forwardingnews.com sits in the top 86% for audience and the top 42% for authority, at $2.37 per thousand monthly visits. Inside the DA 30-39 band (892 listings) that price ranks 119th for value, which is the comparison to use: nobody competes with the whole index, they compete with the sites a buyer would book instead.

forwardingnews.com out-ranks 86% of the index on audience size (about 6.5× the index median) and 42% on authority. The placement costs $2.37 per thousand estimated visits, and cheaper per visit than 87% 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.

• Thin profiles where diversity matters more than raw authority.
• Local and service businesses whose market has few specialist publications left.
• New domains that need a plausible first set of citations before anything ambitious.
• 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: an experience write-up with numbers, dates and decisions. 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.

• 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.
• Send the anchor text in the draft Not afterwards. Once the editor has set the copy, changing the anchor is a new request and a new reason for the link to end up in a bio block.
• 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 $85 look cheap a year later.

Anchor plan for this host

• a descriptive anchor that repeats a phrase the article already uses naturally
• one brand or URL anchor in the first half, and nothing else

• 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.
• Editorial activity. A site with 35.9k monthly visits and nothing published in six months is a decaying asset, and decaying assets get dropped from the index in batches.
• Indexation of the host's recent output. We run site:forwardingnews.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.
• 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 forwardingnews.com 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 forwardingnews.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 $85 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 General section of our index at the same budget is easy to arrange.

What comes with this placement

• 12-month replacement cover: if the link drops, we rebuild it.
• One contextual placement inside an article written for forwardingnews.com's audience, not a link directory entry.
• The article itself, drafted to the host's style and edited before submission.
• Live-URL verification, with a dated record of the placement.

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