The loadedcorner.com placement brief

Mid-market at $75: the band where judgement about the site matters more than the invoice.

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 4.3k 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.

Ranked against the 2,000 listings we index, loadedcorner.com sits in the top 44% for audience and the top 42% for authority, at $17.44 per thousand monthly visits. Inside the DA 30-39 band (892 listings) that price ranks 485th for value, which is the comparison to use: nobody competes with the whole index, they compete with the sites a buyer would book instead.

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 4.3k 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 4.3k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.

Two comparisons decide whether loadedcorner.com at $75 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.

loadedcorner.com has 64 DR against an index median of 51, 4.3k monthly visits against a median of 5.5k, and a placement price of $75 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.

loadedcorner.com out-ranks 44% of the index on audience size (in line with the index median) and 42% on authority. The placement costs $17.44 per thousand estimated visits, and mid-priced for a site carrying DA 30-39. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $75 is a good trade or just a listed one.

• Thin profiles where diversity matters more than raw authority.
• Agencies filling a monthly quota with links nobody will object to.
• Local and service businesses whose market has few specialist publications left.
• 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 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 myth-busting piece on one belief your industry has to fight. 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.

• 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 $75 look cheap a year later.
• 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.
• 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

• one brand or URL anchor in the first half, and nothing else
• no two anchors to the same target page from one article

• Whether the exact placement URL is indexable. A 39 DA domain happily serves noindexed contributor pages. We read the robots meta tag on the article template, not on the homepage.
• 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 4.3k monthly visits and nothing published in six months is a decaying asset, and decaying assets get dropped from the index in batches.
• What happens on removal. loadedcorner.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.

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 loadedcorner.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 loadedcorner.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.

If the article you want published needs expert authorship, data or photography, that work is included; if it needs a regulated-industry review, say so early, because it changes the timeline rather than the price.

What comes with this placement

• Link attribute verified on the published page and reported as found.
• Live-URL verification, with a dated record of the placement.
• One contextual placement inside an article written for loadedcorner.com's audience, not a link directory entry.
• Anchor and target page exactly as approved in the brief, or the placement is not counted.

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