shortcaption.net: what a guest post here actually buys you

$70 is roughly within a few percent of the median against the General median of $70 in our index, which is the number worth arguing about.

There is a second job these placements do that is worth naming: they make a young or thin profile look normal. A domain that acquires 51-level links from a spread of ordinary publications, in drips, over months, looks like a business that has been around. A domain that acquires forty links from aggressive networks in a fortnight looks like a campaign, and it is the pattern rather than the individual link that gets noticed.

Within the General section of the index — 1,576 listings, 39 median DA, 5k median traffic, $70 median price — this placement is within a few percent of the median on cost and roughly 20% of the index median on audience. Listings in that section range from $30 at the cheap end, so the question is not whether $70 is high for a link, but whether it is high for this one.

Where shortcaption.net is not a topical match for your market, buy it for that plausibility and for whatever brand exposure comes free, and put your exact-match anchors on the sites that genuinely cover your subject. That one discipline is the difference between a general guest post strengthening a profile and the same link making it look synthetic.

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 shortcaption.net at $70 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.

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 — 51 DA, 48 PA, 57 DR, 1,100 visits, $70, do-follow — is measured, dated September 2026, and available to you before you commit.

shortcaption.net out-ranks 11% of the index on audience size (roughly 20% of the index median) and 81% on authority. The placement costs $63.64 per thousand estimated visits, and one of the pricier placements in its DA 50-59 band. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $70 is a good trade or just a listed one.

• Agencies filling a monthly quota with links nobody will object to.
• Thin profiles where diversity matters more than raw authority.
• Local and service businesses whose market has few specialist publications left.
• Do not buy this as part of a burst. 7–12 days is the delivery window for one placement; a month's worth of placements across several hosts is the pattern that works.
• 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 51 DA placement on a General site is a start, not a strategy.

Pitch angle: a practical guide that solves one named problem for your market. 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.

• Keep the tone flat No superlatives, no promises about outcomes, no invented before-and-after. The style that survives editorial review in General 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.
• Open with the thing you know One specific claim, a number or a dated decision, in the first two sentences. Editors in General positions decide whether to keep a contribution in about that long.

Anchor plan for this host

• a descriptive anchor that repeats a phrase the article already uses naturally
• one brand or URL anchor in the first half, and nothing else

• Anchor history. We pull the anchors other sites have bought there. If the last twenty were all money phrases, a brand anchor from you will look natural, which is the rare and useful direction.
• 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.
• Editorial activity. A site with 1.1k monthly visits and nothing published in six months is a decaying asset, and decaying assets get dropped from the index in batches.
• Whether the exact placement URL is indexable. A 51 DA domain happily serves noindexed contributor pages. We read the robots meta tag on the article template, not on the homepage.

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 shortcaption.net Publisher slots move week to week, including on 51 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 shortcaption.net'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 $70 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.
• One contextual placement inside an article written for shortcaption.net's audience, not a link directory entry.
• The article itself, drafted to the host's style and edited before submission.
• White-label PDF + CSV report — forward it to a client unchanged.

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