The womennewsmagazine.com placement brief

At $35 this is a budget listing; the maths still has to work, and it works when the page is topical and the host is active.

Titles in this group are usually run by small teams with high volume, so turnaround depends on their queue rather than on your brief. A short, tightly edited 700-900 word contribution with one link and a named author clears desks that would reject a 2,000-word marketing essay with four.

womennewsmagazine.com has 47 DR against an index median of 51, 2.6k monthly visits against a median of 5.5k, and a placement price of $35 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.

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.

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 womennewsmagazine.com at $35 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.

Ranked against the 2,000 listings we index, womennewsmagazine.com sits in the top 31% for audience and the top 52% for authority, at $13.46 per thousand monthly visits. Inside the DA 40-49 band (703 listings) that price ranks 462nd for value, which is the comparison to use: nobody competes with the whole index, they compete with the sites a buyer would book instead.

womennewsmagazine.com out-ranks 31% of the index on audience size (roughly 47% of the index median) and 52% on authority. The placement costs $13.46 per thousand estimated visits, and mid-priced for a site carrying DA 40-49. Those two figures, not the DA column alone, decide whether $35 is a good trade or just a listed one.

• 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.
• Recovery work after a penalty, when the profile needs plausible, editorial-looking citations fast.
• 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 News & Media site is a start, not a strategy.
• 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.

Pitch angle: an explainers-plus-data piece tied to a story cycle in your market, not a press release. 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.

• 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 $35 look cheap a year later.
• 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.
• 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

• 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

• Editorial activity. A site with 2.6k monthly visits and nothing published in six months is a decaying asset, and decaying assets get dropped from the index in batches.
• 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.
• 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:womennewsmagazine.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 womennewsmagazine.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 womennewsmagazine.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

• Live-URL verification, with a dated record of the placement.
• Anchor and target page exactly as approved in the brief, or the placement is not counted.
• The article itself, drafted to the host's style and edited before submission.
• Availability confirmed on the exact URL before you are invoiced.

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