Placing a link on vbusiness.co.uk

This is the band where a placement pays for itself through relevance instead of reach: 41.6k visits, most of them arriving from long-tail queries.

Editors in this category will accept a link to your resource if the resource is genuinely the subject of a sentence. That is the whole test: if the sentence still works with the link removed, the link probably will not.

Within the Business section of the index — 35 listings, 53 median DA, 4.9k median traffic, $35 median price — this placement is 129% above the median on cost and about 7.6× the index median on audience. Listings in that section range from $20 at the cheap end, so the question is not whether $80 is high for a link, but whether it is high for this one.

Business titles are the most forgiving category for a contribution with a link in it, and therefore the most crowded. Standing out is a structural problem rather than a writing one: an article that opens with a specific number, a named process or a decision gets read, and specific things get cited by other writers. Business content that opens with a general observation gets nothing.

Our observation on this host is do-follow outbound links in editorial content. That is the attribute, not the value: the 36 DA and 41.6k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.

Two comparisons decide whether vbusiness.co.uk at $80 is a good buy: this listing against the 35 other Business 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, vbusiness.co.uk sits in the top 88% for audience and the top 21% for authority, at $1.92 per thousand monthly visits. Inside the DA 30-39 band (892 listings) that price ranks 99th for value, which is the comparison to use: nobody competes with the whole index, they compete with the sites a buyer would book instead.

vbusiness.co.uk out-ranks 88% of the index on audience size (about 7.6× the index median) and 21% on authority. The placement costs $1.92 per thousand estimated visits, and cheaper per visit than 89% of the DA 30-39 band. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $80 is a good trade or just a listed one.

• Local professional firms where the link plus a branded search result is the point.
• Agencies that need topical relevance in a specific vertical.
• B2B services and consultancies whose prospects research before contacting.
• 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 you need the anchor to be your money keyword and the host is marked Do-follow. Attribute and anchor politics matter less than the page's survival, and a forced anchor is the easiest thing for an editor to change.

Pitch angle: an operations write-up: what you changed and what it cost. That is the shape we take to a Business audience, because it is the version the host's own editor has a reason to keep.

• 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.
• 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.
• Name a real author A person with a title and a bio. Anonymous contributions on Business sites are the first thing an editor distrusts, and the first thing a reader discounts.

Anchor plan for this host

• a resource-name anchor where the article points at the thing it mentions
• brand anchor in the author bio, once

• Indexation of the host's recent output. We run site:vbusiness.co.uk and compare the count against the site's publishing rate. A property publishing weekly with a fraction of its pages indexed has a crawl or quality problem you would inherit.
• Ownership. Several of the listings in our index turn out to share a publisher or an ad network. Relevance does not multiply when five links come from one hand, so we check the footer, the registration and the ad slots.
• 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.
• 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.

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 vbusiness.co.uk Publisher slots move week to week, including on 36 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 vbusiness.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.

The quoted $80 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

• Link attribute verified on the published page and reported as found.
• Live-URL verification, with a dated record of the placement.
• White-label PDF + CSV report — forward it to a client unchanged.
• One contextual placement inside an article written for vbusiness.co.uk's audience, not a link directory entry.

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