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Link acquisition · Updated August 2026

High-authority backlinks from real news sites

The link is a by-product of the placement. An article on a publication people actually read earns you a link, a brand mention, referral traffic and a source that AI answers can cite. A link bought in isolation, from a site that exists to sell links, earns you a liability. 2,394 publications in this catalog carry a dofollow link; each one shows its authority, its price and its link policy before you pay, so nothing about the purchase is a surprise.

Dofollow outlets by authority band

AuthorityDofollow outletsFrom
DA 90+98$301
DA 80 to 89251$130
DA 70 to 79648$110
DA 60 to 69790$110
DA 50 to 59252$168

Live from the catalog. Domain Authority is Moz's third-party metric, useful as a shorthand and not a ranking factor in itself.

What we sell

  • An article published on a named publication you picked from the catalog.
  • The link policy stated up front: dofollow, nofollow or sponsored-tagged, per outlet.
  • The live URL after publication, so the placement is verifiable.
  • Per-placement pricing with no retainer and no minimum order.

What we will not sell you

  • PBN links. They get deindexed in waves and take their customers down with them.
  • Ranking guarantees. Nobody controls the algorithm, and anyone claiming to is lying.
  • Bulk link packages priced by quantity, which is the shape of the problem, not the fix.
  • Hidden nofollow. If an outlet does not pass equity, its page says so before you buy.

How to judge a link before you buy it

  1. Would you read the site? If the homepage is a wall of sponsored posts with no editorial identity, authority metrics are measuring a shell.
  2. Is the link inside the article? Contextual links inside relevant copy behave differently from author-bio and footer links.
  3. Check the link policy, not the promise. Sponsored and nofollow attributes are a publisher decision. Ours are published per outlet so you can filter on them.
  4. Does the audience match? Referral traffic from the right readership is worth more than authority from the wrong one, and it survives algorithm updates.
  5. Is it indexed? A link on a page search engines never index passes nothing. Indexation status is on every outlet page.

FAQ

High-authority backlinks, FAQ

What is a high-authority backlink?

A link from a domain search engines already trust, on a page that is genuinely about your topic, inside editorial content rather than a footer or a link list. Domain Authority and Domain Rating are useful shorthand for the first part, but a DA 90 link buried in a sidebar is worth less than a DA 60 link inside a relevant article.

Can you buy high-quality backlinks?

You can pay a publication to run an article that links to you, which is what sponsored placement and digital PR are. What you cannot buy is a guarantee that search engines will treat the link as an endorsement. Anyone promising rankings in exchange for links is selling you a risk, not a result.

Are your links dofollow?

Some are and some are not, and we show which on every outlet page before you pay. Roughly two thirds of the active catalog is dofollow. The rest is nofollow or sponsored-tagged, which still carries brand-mention and referral value but passes no link equity. Filtering by link policy is a one-click filter on the marketplace.

How much does a high DA backlink cost?

It tracks authority and audience, not a fixed rate card. In our catalog dofollow placements start around $110 in the DA 60 to 79 range, and DA 90+ publications generally start in the low hundreds and climb into the thousands depending on the outlet. Every price is on the outlet page before you buy.

Do PBN links or niche edits work?

Private blog networks are the clearest violation of search-engine guidelines and get deindexed in waves, taking the sites that bought from them along. Niche edits, where a link is inserted into an existing article, sit in a grey zone that depends entirely on whether the host page is real. Neither is what we sell.

How is this different from a link building agency?

An agency sells you a monthly retainer and reports links after the fact. This is a catalog: you see the publication, its authority, its price and its link policy, and you choose. No retainer, no minimum, no waiting to find out where your links went.

How many links do I need?

Fewer than most packages sell you. A handful of links from publications a human would recognise moves brand search, referral traffic and AI-citation likelihood more than a hundred links from sites nobody reads. Buy for the audience and the credibility first; treat the link as the part that compounds.

Pick the publication, see the link policy, then decide

No retainer, no packages, no guessing where your links went. Filter by authority, price and dofollow, and buy the ones you want.