Guest post on techktimes.co.uk: the site brief

$85 on a 51 DA host works out at $4.25 per 1,000 estimated visits, cheaper per visit than 82% of the DA 50-59 band.

Tech audiences are the least tolerant of marketing dressed as engineering, and the editors of these sites know it. The pieces that get published, indexed and then linked to by other people are the ones with a claim, evidence and a reproducible method. Anything that reads like a feature list gets cut back to two sentences and a bio link.

The arithmetic a buyer should see: 20,000 estimated visits a month, $85 per placement, so $4.25 per thousand visits for a do-follow link on a site scoring 51 DA and 44 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.

Expect editorial standards to be enforced on the structure as well as the tone: no thin affiliate comparisons, no recycled press copy, links that go somewhere the reader needs rather than somewhere you want. Sites with 20k monthly visits cannot survive publishing filler, so write for their reader first and your anchor second.

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 techktimes.co.uk at $85 is a good buy: this listing against the 53 other Technology 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.

techktimes.co.uk has 54 DR against an index median of 51, 20k monthly visits against a median of 5.5k, and a placement price of $85 against $70. Where those three numbers point in different directions, the traffic figure is usually the honest one: it is what a publisher has to protect, and it is what decays first when a site starts selling too much inventory.

techktimes.co.uk out-ranks 78% of the index on audience size (about 3.6× the index median) and 81% on authority. The placement costs $4.25 per thousand estimated visits, and cheaper per visit than 82% of the DA 50-59 band. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $85 is a good trade or just a listed one.

• SaaS and dev-tool companies whose buyers shortlist from articles they half-remember.
• Founders building a personal search presence alongside the company site.
• Agencies selling technical work who need proof of specialism, not proof of volume.
• 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 as part of a burst. 10–16 days is the delivery window for one placement; a month's worth of placements across several hosts is the pattern that works.

Pitch angle: a data note on usage patterns, priced from public sources. That is the shape we take to a Technology audience, because it is the version the host's own editor has a reason to keep.

• Add a heading someone would search A question-style H2 phrased the way the reader phrases it. This is what lets the article rank on its own, which is the difference between a placement that gets crawled weekly and one that gets crawled yearly.
• Open with the thing you know One specific claim, a number or a dated decision, in the first two sentences. Editors in Technology positions decide whether to keep a contribution in about that long.
• 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

• a descriptive anchor naming the technique, pointing at the page that explains that technique
• two links maximum, one of them to a reference outside your own domain

• 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.
• 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 20k 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 techktimes.co.uk 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 techktimes.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.

Rates on this kind of listing drift with the host's own demand, so $85 is a current figure rather than a locked one. Volume changes the maths: a second placement on the same domain is usually refused, whereas a second placement across the Technology section of our index at the same budget is easy to arrange.

What comes with this placement

• Availability confirmed on the exact URL before you are invoiced.
• Link attribute verified on the published page and reported as found.
• 12-month replacement cover: if the link drops, we rebuild it.
• Live-URL verification, with a dated record of the placement.

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