General · DA 42 · 43k visits a month

Guest post on hanisays.com: the site brief

One contextual link inside a General article on hanisays.com, at $85, with the placement verified live before it counts as delivered. The brief covers the metrics, the article shape that survives this host's desk, and the checks we run before we send anything.

42DA (our index)
38PA · placement page
50DR · link profile
43kest. visits / month
$85per placement
Do-followeditorial link type
Niche
General
Authority band
DA 40-49
Traffic band
43k/mo
Cost per 1,000 visits
$1.98
Typical turnaround
10–16 days
Audience language
English
Registered market
Not stated
Value rank in band
108th of 703

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DA, DR and traffic come from our own index snapshot (September 2026) and are recalculated when a slot is booked; PA is our internal page-level score for the host's contributor templates, not a third-party metric. Prices are per placement in USD and move with publisher availability. Nothing here is a statement from hanisays.com or an assurance of rankings — link building improves your inputs, not search engines’ outputs.

The placement

The placement, described plainly

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 42-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.

Within the General section of the index — 1,576 listings, 39 median DA, 5k median traffic, $70 median price — this placement is 21% above the median on cost and about 7.8× the index median on audience. Listings in that section range from $30 at the cheap end, so the question is not whether $85 is high for a link, but whether it is high for this one.

General-interest publications are the workhorses of a link profile and the easiest place to overpay. The article shape that works is boringly specific: a problem, the method used, what happened, what it cost. A general title with 43k monthly visits survives because it answers questions well, not because it loves contributors, so a piece with nothing verifiable in it gets edited down to a bio link.

Our observation on this host is do-follow outbound links in editorial content. That is the attribute, not the value: the 42 DA and 43k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.

In context

Reading hanisays.com's metrics against the market

Two comparisons decide whether hanisays.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.

Metrichanisays.comGeneral medianWhole index
Domain Authority423940
PA — our page-level score38—clamped to the host’s DA band
DR — linking profile50—51
Est. monthly visits43k5k5.5k
Placement price$85$70$70
Cost per 1,000 visits$1.98$14$10.15
Traffic rank of 2,000 listings#233—1 = highest traffic
Price rank of 2,000 listings#139—1 = cheapest

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, 38 PA, 50 DR, 43,000 visits, $85, do-follow — is measured, dated September 2026, and available to you before you commit.

hanisays.com out-ranks 88% of the index on audience size (about 7.8× the index median) and 70% on authority. The placement costs $1.98 per thousand estimated visits, and cheaper per visit than 85% of the DA 40-49 band. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $85 is a good trade or just a listed one.

Suitability

Who should place here

  • 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 the site's topical distance from your market needs three paragraphs of explanation. Relevance has to be obvious to a crawler reading the neighbourhood.
  • Do not buy this as part of a burst. 10–16 days is the delivery window for one placement; a month's worth of placements across several hosts is the pattern that works.
Content brief

The content shape that survives this desk

Pitch angle: a data note built from something you have measured. 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.

  • Keep the tone flat No superlatives, no promises about outcomes, no invented before-and-after. The style that survives editorial review in General is the style that sounds like someone reporting on their own work.
  • 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.
  • Name a real author A person with a title and a bio. Anonymous contributions on General sites are the first thing an editor distrusts, and the first thing a reader discounts.

Anchor plan for this host

  • no two anchors to the same target page from one article
  • a descriptive anchor that repeats a phrase the article already uses naturally
Pre-order checks

Verify these before the invoice

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • What happens on removal. hanisays.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.
Delivery

From brief to live URL

  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 hanisays.com 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 hanisays.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.
Pricing

Cost, and what moves it

The quoted $85 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

  • One contextual placement inside an article written for hanisays.com's audience, not a link directory entry.
  • Live-URL verification, with a dated record of the placement.
  • Link attribute verified on the published page and reported as found.
  • White-label PDF + CSV report — forward it to a client unchanged.
FAQ

Questions about a hanisays.com placement

Compare it with the market rather than the label. In our index the median general listing is priced at $70 with a median DA of 39 and median traffic of 5k, which puts hanisays.com 21% above the median and about 7.8× the index median. If the article you place there is specific enough to be cited by someone else, you have bought an asset. If it is filler, you have bought 42 points of something nobody reads.

By the tests we run, no: 43k estimated monthly visits, a 42 DA score and 50 DR are not the shape of a network built to sell links, and the site's own publishing activity is visible. What we cannot certify is what happens after our snapshot — a site can be sold, a section can be converted into a link shop, a CMS migration can drop a page. That is why the live URL is re-checked before delivery and why the replacement cover exists.

DA 42 describes the domain. The PA figure here (38) is our own page-level score for the templates that would carry your placement: how deep the site links them, how much of the domain's crawl budget and internal weight reaches them, how old and how referenced they are. A site can hold 42 DA while its contributor template scores 38, and it is the template that your link sits in.

Rebuilt and re-reported, under the same 12-month cover as every placement in the index. Links drop for boring reasons — redesigns, content pruning, a host losing interest in contributor content — and hanisays.com is no more immune than a 42 DA site usually is. We monitor rather than waiting for you to notice.

Generally yes, if the budget stretches: the guest post builds the brand trail and the author profile, the niche edit applies pressure to a page that already ranks. Keep them a week or two apart so the arrivals do not look like a single campaign, and use different anchor shapes for each.

Yes — ask and we will send the anchor and target profile for the host's recent contributions. It takes a day and it tells you more about how your placement will look than any metric on this page does.

Book this slot, or ask for something closer to your market

Send the URL you want the link to point at and we confirm availability on hanisays.com before you are invoiced — or we shortlist three comparable listings from the General section of the index instead.

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