Editorial placements and guest posts
Articles published in ILLUMINATION and four other Medium publications where I hold editor access, plus placements on third-party sites chosen for relevance rather than a number in a tool.
A guest post service run by an editor, not a reseller.
I am an editor at ILLUMINATION on Medium and four other publications, which means I read submissions every week and decide what gets published. That is also how I judge a placement, and it is why I turn down more sites than I recommend.
Editor at five Medium publications · Working with software brands and agencies across the US and Europe · Based in Hyderabad, Pakistan
Publications
ILLUMINATION, Technology Hits, Writer's Favorite, Readers Club, ILLUMINATION Local News & Documentary
Terms
Priced per piece of work. No retainers, no minimum term, no packages.
The problem
Most guest post services sell you a slot.
You get a link on a site with a good domain rating, an invoice, and very little else. Six months later nothing has moved and nobody can tell you why.
It is usually one of three things.
The page your link sits on has no inbound links of its own, so it is crawled once after publication and rarely again. The site had a strong authority score and almost no readers. Or the article was written to fill a slot rather than to be read, so nothing referenced it and no system quoted it.
None of those show up in the tool you checked before you paid.
Services
Guest posts, editorial placements and AI search visibility
Four things, each priced per piece of work and scoped before anything starts.
AI search visibility
Finding which sources ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI answers actually pull from in your category, then getting your brand into them.
Content writing
Articles written to be read and quoted, not to hit a word count. Usually for software brands who need somebody to actually use the product before writing about it.
SEO audits and strategy
A written assessment of what is holding a site back, in priority order, with the reasoning attached to each finding.
I also build and rebuild websites for clients who need one. Web development
Access
The five publications I edit for
Editor access is not something you can buy. It is given to writers a publication has worked with over time, and it is the reason I can place a client article in a queue rather than submit it and hope.
ILLUMINATION
Medium's largest general publication. Broad readership across technology, business and culture.
Technology Hits
Where most software and AI client work goes.
Writer's Favorite
Pieces about writing itself. Process, publishing and craft.
Readers Club
Essays and reflective pieces with a clear point of view.
ILLUMINATION Local News & Documentary
Reported pieces and longer investigations.
Process
How a project runs
01
You tell me what you sell
Not a keyword list. The problem your customer has before they know your product exists.
02
I tell you what will not work
Including the parts that lose me the sale. If your budget is better spent elsewhere, I will say so.
03
We agree the work
A named publication, a named topic, a fixed price. No retainer, no minimum term.
04
I write it and place it
You see the draft before anyone else does, then the live link.
Before you pay
Two things worth knowing upfront
I tell clients both of these before they pay.
Every external link in a Medium story is nofollow
Every publication, every writer, editor or not. If someone is selling you a Medium placement as a backlink, that is not what you are buying. What you are buying is a mention on a page that gets read, indexed and quoted, which is a different thing and worth having for different reasons.
A placement on a page nothing references does very little
The site can have a strong domain rating and the article can be well written. If no other page points at that specific URL, it gets crawled once and rarely again. I check the page, not the domain.
It costs me work, and it is the reason the clients I do take stay.
Writing
Recent writing
The backlink SEO check nobody runs before paying
Every article about orphan pages is written for site owners. Nobody writes it for the people buying placements.
Your SEO is answering the wrong question for AI search
A twenty-minute method for finding the sources an AI answer is built from.
Why guest post word counts quietly ruin the article
More than half the pages cited in AI Overviews run under a thousand words.
Looking for a guest post service that checks the page, not just the domain?
I will tell you whether it is worth doing before we talk about price. That answer is free and it is sometimes no.