windowsterminal.com: a contextual link, and whether it is worth $40

33.5k monthly visits is a steady, readable audience, roughly about 6.1× the index median compared with the index median of 5.5k.

The commercial value here is different from a general blog: a link from a technology title is usually read by people who will mention it somewhere else. That is why an article with a real number in it keeps returning value a year later, while a listicle about trends dies in the archive. Give the editor something they can cite.

Within the Technology section of the index — 53 listings, 41 median DA, 15.5k median traffic, $40 median price — this placement is within a few percent of the median on cost and about 6.1× the index median on audience. Listings in that section range from $30 at the cheap end, so the question is not whether $40 is high for a link, but whether it is high for this one.

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 33.5k 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 windowsterminal.com at $40 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.

windowsterminal.com has 64 DR against an index median of 51, 33.5k monthly visits against a median of 5.5k, and a placement price of $40 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.

windowsterminal.com out-ranks 85% of the index on audience size (about 6.1× the index median) and 52% on authority. The placement costs $1.19 per thousand estimated visits, and cheaper per visit than 92% of the DA 40-49 band. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $40 is a good trade or just a listed one.

• Founders building a personal search presence alongside the company site.
• Migration and platform pages that compete on comparison terms.
• SaaS and dev-tool companies whose buyers shortlist from articles they half-remember.
• Do not buy this as part of a burst. 5–9 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 40 DA placement on a Technology site is a start, not a strategy.

Pitch angle: a teardown or benchmark with your own test results, tables included. 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.

• Send the anchor text in the draft Not afterwards. Once the editor has set the copy, changing the anchor is a new request and a new reason for the link to end up in a bio block.
• 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.
• Name a real author A person with a title and a bio. Anonymous contributions on Technology sites are the first thing an editor distrusts, and the first thing a reader discounts.

Anchor plan for this host

• a product-name anchor only in the bio or a final 'tools mentioned' line
• a descriptive anchor naming the technique, pointing at the page that explains that technique

• 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.
• 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.
• 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 33.5k monthly visits and nothing published in six months is a decaying asset, and decaying assets get dropped from the index in batches.

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 windowsterminal.com Publisher slots move week to week, including on 40 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 windowsterminal.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.

Rates on this kind of listing drift with the host's own demand, so $40 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.
• One contextual placement inside an article written for windowsterminal.com's audience, not a link directory entry.
• White-label PDF + CSV report — forward it to a client unchanged.
• Anchor and target page exactly as approved in the brief, or the placement is not counted.

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