The noodlemagazines.co.uk placement brief

A 31 DA listing at $60 is the price of an experiment: if the article earns citations, you have found a channel; if not, you have lost one invoice.

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 20% below the median on cost and roughly 36% of the index median on audience. Listings in that section range from $35 at the cheap end, so the question is not whether $60 is high for a link, but whether it is high for this one.

Titles in this group are usually run by small teams with high volume, so turnaround depends on their queue rather than on your brief. A short, tightly edited 700-900 word contribution with one link and a named author clears desks that would reject a 2,000-word marketing essay with four.

The index lists this property's editorial links as followed. Availability of a followed link changes with the site's monetisation decisions, so we confirm the tag on the live URL before counting delivery.

Two comparisons decide whether noodlemagazines.co.uk at $60 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.

Ranked against the 2,000 listings we index, noodlemagazines.co.uk sits in the top 25% for audience and the top 3% for authority, at $30 per thousand monthly visits. Inside the DA 30-39 band (892 listings) that price ranks 580th for value, which is the comparison to use: nobody competes with the whole index, they compete with the sites a buyer would book instead.

noodlemagazines.co.uk out-ranks 25% of the index on audience size (roughly 36% of the index median) and 3% on authority. The placement costs $30 per thousand estimated visits, and mid-priced for a site carrying DA 30-39. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $60 is a good trade or just a listed one.

• Brand-proof pages where a citation from a title this size is the point of the exercise.
• Recovery work after a penalty, when the profile needs plausible, editorial-looking citations fast.
• 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 your profile has no branded searches yet and this is meant to be the single link that changes that. One 31 DA placement on a News & Media site is a start, not a strategy.

Pitch angle: a market note that cites your own numbers, because news desks publish data and rarely publish opinions. 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.
• 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

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

• 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 2k monthly visits and nothing published in six months is a decaying asset, and decaying assets get dropped from the index in batches.
• Neighbour content on the same section. The twelve articles around yours set the context search engines will use to judge the link. If they are all sponsored posts on unrelated topics, the slot is worth less than the price says.
• 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.

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 noodlemagazines.co.uk Publisher slots move week to week, including on 31 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 noodlemagazines.co.uk'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

• Anchor and target page exactly as approved in the brief, or the placement is not counted.
• 12-month replacement cover: if the link drops, we rebuild it.
• Link attribute verified on the published page and reported as found.
• White-label PDF + CSV report — forward it to a client unchanged.

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