Small traffic is not automatically a problem at 38 DA, but it removes the argument for a premium price, and it is why we push buyers towards the budget end for sites in this band.
There is a practical reason to write for the archive here: finance queries are evergreen and the same articles keep returning search traffic for years, which means a contextual link from a well-maintained finance title outlives a placement on a news feed. It also means the site's existing anchor neighbours are visible, permanent and worth checking before you order.
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 — 38 DA, 33 PA, 49 DR, 3,400 visits, $35, do-follow — is measured, dated September 2026, and available to you before you commit.
Expect 38 DA sites in this category to reject a second link outright and to be suspicious of any anchor containing 'loan', 'insurance' or 'invest'. The pieces that get published with a link intact are the ones where the link is to a calculation, a dataset or a document the article itself would be worse without.
Our observation on this host is do-follow outbound links in editorial content. That is the attribute, not the value: the 38 DA and 3.4k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.