The newsmany.com placement brief

At 49 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 53% below the median on cost and roughly 31% of the index median on audience. Listings in that section range from $35 at the cheap end, so the question is not whether $35 is high for a link, but whether it is high for this one.

News sites are the hardest place to earn a body link and the easiest place to earn a mention. Editorial staff strip links from contributions more often than any other publisher type, and the ones that survive are the links that carry a source, a figure or a document a reader might want. Build the piece around something citable and a link stops looking like a favour.

Our observation on this host is do-follow outbound links in editorial content. That is the attribute, not the value: the 49 DA and 1.7k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.

Two comparisons decide whether newsmany.com at $35 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.

The arithmetic a buyer should see: 1,700 estimated visits a month, $35 per placement, so $20.59 per thousand visits for a do-follow link on a site scoring 49 DA and 40 PA. Snapshot September 2026; availability and the exact link attribute are confirmed on the live URL before an invoice, which is the only part of this page that changes week to week.

newsmany.com out-ranks 21% of the index on audience size (roughly 31% of the index median) and 80% on authority. The placement costs $20.59 per thousand estimated visits, and mid-priced for a site carrying DA 40-49. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $35 is a good trade or just a listed one.

• 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.
• Regulated or contested markets where a neutral publication carrying your name is worth more than a blog link.
• 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 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.

Pitch angle: a reaction piece on a regulatory or platform change your industry is currently dealing with. 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.

• Name a real author A person with a title and a bio. Anonymous contributions on News & Media sites are the first thing an editor distrusts, and the first thing a reader discounts.
• Keep the tone flat No superlatives, no promises about outcomes, no invented before-and-after. The style that survives editorial review in News & Media is the style that sounds like someone reporting on their own work.
• 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 $35 look cheap a year later.

Anchor plan for this host

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

• Ownership. Several of the listings in our index turn out to share a publisher or an ad network. Relevance does not multiply when five links come from one hand, so we check the footer, the registration and the ad slots.
• 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.
• Editorial activity. A site with 1.7k 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:newsmany.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.

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 newsmany.com Publisher slots move week to week, including on 49 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 newsmany.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.

The quoted $35 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

• 12-month replacement cover: if the link drops, we rebuild it.
• The article itself, drafted to the host's style and edited before submission.
• One contextual placement inside an article written for newsmany.com's audience, not a link directory entry.
• Availability confirmed on the exact URL before you are invoiced.

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