You pay for a named website, not a DA number in a PDF. Guest posting cost is the publisher fee on that row, plus writing if the host needs an article and you are not supplying one. Premium news and magazines cost more than small blogs. That is not a trick — those editors take longer and reject more pitches.
If two vendors quote “a DA 50 post” at wildly different prices, they are not selling the same host. One of them is selling a number. Ask for the domain. The conversation gets short after that.
How to read our prices
Open Sites & Pricing. Every row is a domain with a price. Filter by niche, DA, DR, traffic and what you can spend. The price you see is the placement on that host, not a subscription to our logo.
Starter, Growth and Authority mixes exist if you do not want to pick line by line. They are still named sites, not an anonymous pack. If a mix includes a row you do not want, we swap from the same sheet. We do not top it up with mystery inventory to hit a count.
Some rows are guest posts. Some are insertions. Some are press-style. The format is on the row. Do not assume a cheap insertion is a full article, or that a magazine fee includes unlimited legal revisions. Read guest posting vs link insertion before you compare two prices.
Why cheap packs exist
Cheap “DA 50 for $20” offers are usually junk, expired domains, or networks. The economics are simple: a real editor with an audience does not sell a post for the price of lunch. Someone is either lying about the metric, recycling a site nobody reads, or placing you on a network they control.
If the vendor cannot show the URL before payment, assume you will not like the host. If they show a screenshot of metrics and hide the domain, assume the same. If they promise page-one as part of the fee, they are selling a different fantasy — we do not match that price because we do not sell that product.
What is not in the row price
- Rush fees if legal needs extra draft rounds beyond what the TAT allows
- A ranking outcome — we do not sell positions
- A promise the page never changes; hosts control their HTML
- Ongoing “link maintenance” years after the campaign unless you keep us on the work
Writing is included when the row says so or when you buy writing with the placement. If you supply a finished draft that already fits the host, you are not paying us to rewrite it from scratch. If the draft misses their length or tone, we will say so before we burn the TAT.
How a quote should look
A useful quote is a list of domains, formats, fees, and whether writing is in. A useless quote is “15 high-quality links — $X.” You cannot audit the second one. You can audit the first against the sheet.
Budget in bands if you want us to mark a shortlist: what you can spend this month, which URLs matter, which hosts to exclude. We will not invent a discount by swapping in a worse site and keeping the same slide title. If the budget only covers smaller blogs, we will say that.
Payment and timing
Bank transfer after we confirm the publisher and brief is the usual path. We do not invoice a mystery bundle and then “see what we can get.” Reply window is 12–24 hours, Monday–Saturday.
Go-live follows the host, not our enthusiasm. A small blog can be days. A magazine can be weeks. The TAT on the row is a guide, not a penalty clause against Google. If a host drops out, we replace from the sheet where a matching row exists. We do not keep the fee and send a screenshot of a different URL you never approved.
Send the niche on contact if you want a shortlist instead of browsing. Or open the sheet and pick. Either way the cost is attached to a name. That is the only pricing model that survives a client asking “which sites?”
A simple way to set a monthly number
Pick three hosts you would actually show someone. Add the row prices. Add writing if you need it. That total is a month. If it is too high, drop the most expensive host, not the names. If it is too low to matter, you are not running a campaign — you are buying a sample. Samples are fine. Just do not expect a sample to look like a programme on a slide.
We would rather book fewer named rows than pad a count. Count is how packs get sold. Names are how you stay out of trouble when someone asks where the money went.
What changes the fee on the same domain
The same host can cost more for a rush, a second link, a longer article, or a homepage mention they almost never sell. Those extras are not hidden if you ask. They are also not included in the row if the row does not say so. A “same site, different price” quote usually means a different product on that domain.
Currency on the sheet is the currency you are billed in for that row. Do not convert in your head and then argue the invoice. If you need a mix in one currency, say so before we lock. We will not silently swap hosts to make a round number look tidy.
If a publisher raises their rate after you approved the old one, we come back to you. We do not eat a surprise and then cut quality to keep the slide. You either accept the new fee, pick another named row, or stop. All three are cleaner than a quiet downgrade.