shopnbny.com: a contextual link, and whether it is worth $90

Premium pricing at $90, which we only recommend when the article you place would have been published anyway.

This is the closest category to a direct return on spend: a link inside a buying guide in front of an audience already holding a wallet converts as well as it passes authority. It also means the competition is real. On a 57 DA property, your placement usually sits beside two or three other brands, so the article has to be good enough that the editor keeps it through the next refresh.

Within the Shopping section of the index — 1 listings, 57 median DA, 20.6k median traffic, $90 median price — this placement is within a few percent of the median on cost and about 3.7× the index median on audience. Listings in that section range from $90 at the cheap end, so the question is not whether $90 is high for a link, but whether it is high for this one.

Commercial-intent pages are where shopping placements earn their keep, and they are also the pages publishers protect most carefully, because their own revenue depends on them. Expect one link, high editorial standards, and a preference for content that helps someone choose rather than content that pushes a brand.

Our observation on this host is do-follow outbound links in editorial content. That is the attribute, not the value: the 57 DA and 20.6k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.

Two comparisons decide whether shopnbny.com at $90 is a good buy: this listing against the 1 other Shopping 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: 20,600 estimated visits a month, $90 per placement, so $4.37 per thousand visits for a do-follow link on a site scoring 57 DA and 50 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.

shopnbny.com out-ranks 78% of the index on audience size (about 3.7× the index median) and 93% on authority. The placement costs $4.37 per thousand estimated visits, and cheaper per visit than 81% of the DA 50-59 band. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $90 is a good trade or just a listed one.

• Gift-led and seasonal businesses that plan around a buying window.
• Retailers with strong margins on specific lines, where one guide can pay for itself.
• Accessories and replacement-parts sellers targeting long-tail model numbers.
• 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 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 seasonal deal-pattern article with real dates and prices. That is the shape we take to a Shopping audience, because it is the version the host's own editor has a reason to keep.

• Open with the thing you know One specific claim, a number or a dated decision, in the first two sentences. Editors in Shopping positions decide whether to keep a contribution in about that long.
• 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 $90 look cheap a year later.
• Keep the tone flat No superlatives, no promises about outcomes, no invented before-and-after. The style that survives editorial review in Shopping is the style that sounds like someone reporting on their own work.

Anchor plan for this host

• the exact product name in the review sentence
• brand anchor on the 'where to buy' line

• 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.
• Editorial activity. A site with 20.6k monthly visits and nothing published in six months is a decaying asset, and decaying assets get dropped from the index in batches.
• 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. shopnbny.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 shopnbny.com Publisher slots move week to week, including on 57 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 shopnbny.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.
• The article itself, drafted to the host's style and edited before submission.
• White-label PDF + CSV report — forward it to a client unchanged.
• Availability confirmed on the exact URL before you are invoiced.

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