Your boot-sizing guide is live and you want links pointing at it. Here is the order from the first filter to the status line in your list, with the decisions that cost money.
ContentStores editorial team ·
Seven screens between a bare URL and a live placement
1
Choose the page, not the site
Copy the full address of the guide. A page on how to size a hiking boot has one job, and the link should point at that job. The homepage is a worse target for almost every guide.
2
Open the marketplace and set niche and language
Log in and start with the two filters that protect you from wasted money. A footwear guide wants outdoor, sport or lifestyle sites in the language your shoppers read.
3
Add Domain Rating and traffic limits
Think of them as supplier grades. Set a floor for traffic so that dead blogs drop out, then leave the Domain Rating range wide enough to see real price differences.
4
Read each row, then add to the basket
Every row shows Domain Rating, organic traffic, referring domains, niche, language and price. Adding a row to the basket charges nothing, so treat it as a shortlist.
5
Pick the content mode per line
Automatic, notes of your own, or a finished article. The table below sets out when each makes sense.
6
Review the basket and pay from balance
Balance is topped up in the dashboard, not through the API. The accounts team can ask for invoices, including proforma ones.
7
Track the status in your ordered links
Each placement appears with a status. Expect it live roughly a day after payment, permanent and dofollow.
Three ways to brief the article
The same link, three amounts of effort from you.
Mode
What you give us
When a merchandiser should pick it
Automatic
Target URL and one keyword
Routine guides where the anchor matters more than the prose
Your own prompt
Instructions on angle, tone, products to avoid
A guide with a brand voice or a category the AI tends to flatten
Your own article
A finished piece, links included as agreed
A lookbook or a hero guide you already wrote and want to be quoted precisely
What the automatic mode does and does not do
In automatic mode the article is written for you and carries one clean link to your page. It is AI-written, and you should read it as such.
That suits a care guide on washing wool knitwear, where the link anchor is the point. It suits a flagship lookbook much less, because you cannot see the wording before it goes out unless you supply it yourself.
We split by earnings. Pages that sit on a hero shelf, like the boot guide, get a briefed or finished article. Long-tail pages, the sort with four visits a week, can ride on automatic.
One line, one target
Each basket line points at a single URL. If three guides need support, that is three separate lines, and a fair reason to keep the shortlist small.
Where an AI agent fits in the screens
Ordering can also go through a REST API with a Bearer key, or through an agent over MCP from ChatGPT or Claude. An agent can browse donors and fill the basket for you.
It cannot pay. Paying the basket is a separate step that a human approves, which is a sensible limit for anything touching a card or a balance.
If your merchandising team already keeps a spreadsheet of guides and target keywords, this is the quickest way to turn that sheet into a basket. The glossary covers the terms an agent will use, and the calendar shows how to space the orders.
Before you press pay
The target URL opens and is indexable, not behind a login or a noindex tag.
The guide is finished, with product links that work and stock that exists.
The niche on every row sits next to the guide's subject.
No more than a handful of lines for one page in a single week.
The anchor keyword reads like something a human would write.
The balance covers the total and you know where the invoice will land.