The venisonmagazine.com placement brief

Below 30 DA, we buy for relevance or we do not buy, because a low-authority generic link is the cheapest thing on the internet.

What makes a media placement behave differently from a blog placement is the traffic shape: a spike in the first 48 hours, then almost nothing, then a slow trickle that search supplies for months. That is a fine trade if you want proof your brand can be quoted; it is a poor trade if you bought the slot hoping for a permanent contextual link. Confirm the permalink will stay in the site's archive before you commit.

Within the News & Media section of the index — 88 listings, 40 median DA, 31.3k median traffic, $75 median price — this placement is 13% above the median on cost and about 27.3× the index median on audience. Listings in that section range from $35 at the cheap end, so the question is not whether $85 is high for a link, but whether it is high for this one.

News sites are the hardest place to earn a body link and the easiest place to earn a mention. Editorial staff strip links from contributions more often than any other publisher type, and the ones that survive are the links that carry a source, a figure or a document a reader might want. Build the piece around something citable and a link stops looking like a favour.

Our observation on this host is do-follow outbound links in editorial content. That is the attribute, not the value: the 28 DA and 150k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.

Two comparisons decide whether venisonmagazine.com at $85 is a good buy: this listing against the 88 other News & Media 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 — 28 DA, 27 PA, 50 DR, 150,000 visits, $85, do-follow — is measured, dated September 2026, and available to you before you commit.

venisonmagazine.com out-ranks 97% of the index on audience size (about 27.3× the index median) and 0% on authority. The placement costs $0.57 per thousand estimated visits, and cheaper per visit than 89% of the DA 20-29 band. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $85 is a good trade or just a listed one.

• Launch and funding moments that benefit from a spike, not a permanent link.
• Brand-proof pages where a citation from a title this size is the point of the exercise.
• Regulated or contested markets where a neutral publication carrying your name is worth more than a blog link.
• 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.
• 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 market note that cites your own numbers, because news desks publish data and rarely publish opinions. That is the shape we take to a News & Media audience, because it is the version the host's own editor has a reason to keep.

• Name a real author A person with a title and a bio. Anonymous contributions on News & Media sites are the first thing an editor distrusts, and the first thing a reader discounts.
• 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 $85 look cheap a year later.
• Open with the thing you know One specific claim, a number or a dated decision, in the first two sentences. Editors in News & Media positions decide whether to keep a contribution in about that long.

Anchor plan for this host

• brand or the person's name, once, in the first third of the article
• one descriptive anchor that repeats the headline's subject, never your commercial keyword

• Whether the exact placement URL is indexable. A 28 DA domain happily serves noindexed contributor pages. We read the robots meta tag on the article template, not on the homepage.
• Editorial activity. A site with 150k monthly visits and nothing published in six months is a decaying asset, and decaying assets get dropped from the index in batches.
• 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.
• Indexation of the host's recent output. We run site:venisonmagazine.com 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.

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 venisonmagazine.com Publisher slots move week to week, including on 28 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 venisonmagazine.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

• White-label PDF + CSV report — forward it to a client unchanged.
• Link attribute verified on the published page and reported as found.
• 12-month replacement cover: if the link drops, we rebuild it.
• The article itself, drafted to the host's style and edited before submission.

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