Published 13 Aug 2026
Health Guest Post Sites: Real Costs, Metrics and Write For Us List
Health guest post sites accept outside articles, free through a write for us page or as a paid placement. Across 3,931 health publishers the median price is £104.85, ranging from £6.99 to £27,960.
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A health guest post site is any health, medical or wellness publication that will publish an article by someone outside its own staff. Some accept pitches editorially through a write for us page and charge nothing. Others sell the placement outright.
Across 3,931 health publishers with live listed prices, the median cost of a paid health guest post is £104.85. The cheapest is £6.99 and the most expensive is £27,960. The free route costs nothing in money but takes two to eight weeks per placement, and is declined far more often than it is accepted.
This article covers both, separately, because choosing between them is the only decision that matters at the start.
What are health guest post sites?
A health guest post site is any health, wellness, fitness, or medical publication that will publish an article written by somebody outside its own staff.
Searches for guest post health opportunities, health write for us pages, and health blogs write for us all land on the same category, but it divides into two groups, and almost every guide on this subject blurs them.
The first group accepts pitches editorially. They run a write for us or contribute page, an editor reads what you send, and most submissions are declined. You pay nothing, and you may wait a month for silence.
The second group sells placements. The price is set, the turnaround is stated, and the article goes live once you pay. There is no pitch and no rejection.
Both produce a link. They cost entirely different things, they carry different risks, and the rest of this page treats them separately because the decision between them is the only decision that matters at the start.
Free vs paid health guest posts
| Free route | Paid route | |
| What you give | Time, research and a finished article | Money |
| Typical wait | 2 to 8 weeks, often no reply at all | Stated per site, frequently under a week |
| Success rate | Low. Most pitches are ignored | Certain once paid |
| Cost | Nothing | £6.99 to £27,960, median £104.85 |
| Link handling | Earned, usually dofollow | Should carry rel="sponsored" |
| Best for | Publications you specifically want to appear in | Volume and predictability |
The honest framing is this: free is not cheaper. It is paid for in hours rather than in pounds, and the hours are real. A single well-researched pitch to a serious health publication takes most of a working day once you have read their archive, found a genuine gap and written something specific. Ten of those is a fortnight
of work for perhaps two placements.
That trade is worth making for publications you actually want your name on. It is a poor trade if what you need is twenty relevant links this quarter.
Health blogs that accept guest posts and write for us pages
A write for us page is a standing invitation. Health sites run them because commissioning costs money and contributed articles do not, and because a contributor with real clinical or professional background brings expertise the site cannot afford to hire. Finding these pages is easy. Telling the live ones from the dead ones is the part that wastes people’s time.
Why most published lists disappoint. Nearly every health guest posting list you will find opens with the largest names in the category. Those publications employ staff writers and commission from a known pool. Their contributor pages exist, and outside pitches to them are declined at a rate close to total. A list that puts them at the top is padding its own length, and the reader who works down it in order spends a fortnight learning that.
The check that saves the fortnight: open the site’s most recent ten articles and look at the bylines. If every one is staff, the write for us page is decoration.
Health and wellness write for us pages.
Searches for write for us health and wellness return the broadest and most competitive group: general wellness, nutrition, sleep, habits, and preventative health. A health and wellness guest post here reaches the largest audience and faces the most competition. Editors here receive the highest volume of pitches and are the quickest to decline anything that reads like it was written to place a link.
Health and fitness write for us pages.
Write for us health and fitness is the more accessible half of the category. A health and fitness guest post is judged on practical, specific, and demonstrable experience, and a coach or trainer with a real client history clears the credential bar without a medical qualification.
Health and beauty write for us pages.
Write for us health and beauty covers skincare, cosmetics, and aesthetic health. These sit closer to lifestyle than to medicine; editorial standards are lower, and turnaround is faster. They also carry less weight, for exactly the same reason.
Write for us health UK.
UK health publications apply a distinct constraint. Claims about treatment and supplements are regulated more tightly than in the US, and editors will strip or refuse anything that reads as a health claim without a citation behind it. Pitching a UK health site with US-style supplement copy is the most common reason a decent pitch is rejected.
How to find free health backlinks yourself.
A list goes stale. A method does not. These are the search strings that surface health sites accepting contributions, and the checks that tell you which are worth your afternoon.
Search operators
health "write for us"
health "submit a guest post"
health intitle: "write for us"
health inurl:write-for-us
"mental health" + "guest post guidelines"
fitness "contribute to our site"
wellness "become a contributor"
nutrition "guest post" -"guest post service"
The last one matters. Without the exclusion, half of what comes back is agencies selling placements rather than publications accepting them.
How to qualify a site before you pitch
| Check | What you want | Red flag |
| Organic traffic | 1,000 monthly visits or more | Zero traffic despite high DR. This is more common than people think, and there is a section on it below |
| Recent guest bylines | Outside contributors in the last three months | Every recent byline is staff |
| Publishing frequency | Weekly or better | Nothing published in three months |
| Author bios | Visible, with credentials shown | Anonymous or single house byline |
| Outbound links | Relevant, and few per article | Forty unrelated commercial links across the site |
| Guidelines page | Matches what is actually being published | Guidelines describe a site that no longer exists |
Traffic is the check that does the work, and it is the one most people skip because DR is easier to look up. A site with DR 70 and no visitors passes very little of value.
Relevance beats authority in this niche more than in most. A DR 45 publication covering nothing but mental health is worth more to a mental health brand than a DR 75 general lifestyle site that runs one health article a month.
How to pitch so you get a reply.
Health editors decline most cold pitches, and they decline them fast. Four things change that.
- Lead with why you specifically. Clinical role, professional registration, years in practice, previous bylines. In health, this is not a formality. It is the filter.
- Name the gap. Reference a specific article on their site and say what yours adds that theirs did not. This proves you read the site, which almost nobody does.
- Offer three angles, not one. Titles plus two sentences each. Editors choose from options far more readily than they accept a single proposal.
- Keep it under 150 words. Long pitches signal an inexperienced contributor before the editor reaches the idea.
Health guest post pitch template
Subject: Pitch for [Publication]: three angles on [topic]
Hi [Editor],
I'm [name], [credential: registered dietitian, eight years of clinical practice].
I read your piece on [specific article]. It covers [X] well, but stops
short of [the gap]. Three angles that would extend it:
1. [Title]: [two sentences, with the data point you would build on]
2. [Title]: [two sentences]
3. [Title]: [two sentences]
Previously published: [link] | [link]
Happy to send a full outline for whichever fits.
[Name], [credential]
[site]
Two things to change every time: the article you reference and the gap you name. Everything else can stay. The moment those two become generic, the pitch reads as a template and is treated as one.
Health guest post guidelines: what publishers ask for
Guidelines vary, but the recurring requirements are consistent enough to prepare for in advance. These apply whether you submit a guest post editorially or buy a placement.
- Word count. Usually between 900 and 1,800. Shorter than most people expect.
- Originality. Unpublished, and not a rewrite of something already on your own site.
- Citations. Health publications want sources for claims, and they want primary ones. This is the requirement that fails the most otherwise-decent submissions.
- Author bio and credentials. Where the link normally sits. Length is usually capped, often at around 50 words.
- Link limits. One or two, in the bio rather than the body, on most editorial sites. Paid listings state this openly, commonly as a maximum of three dofollow links.
- Turnaround. Editorial review takes weeks. Paid listings state a turnaround, frequently two to five days.
- Medical claims. The health-specific one. Anything describing a treatment, dosage, or outcome will either be cited or cut, and a submission full of uncited claims is usually declined rather than edited.
How much does a health guest post cost?
A paid guest post in health is priced per publisher rather than by any standard rate. Across 3,931 health publishers with a listed price, the median is £104.85. The spread around that median is enormous, and it does not behave the way most buyers assume.
| DR band | Sites | Cheapest | Median | Top 10% |
| DR 0-19 | 1,514 | £6.99 | £69.90 | £370.47 |
| DR 20-29 | 741 | £6.99 | £104.85 | £733.95 |
| DR 30-39 | 745 | £6.99 | £90.87 | £1,048.50 |
| DR 40-49 | 394 | £6.99 | £237.66 | £1,747.50 |
| DR 50-59 | 320 | £6.99 | £265.62 | £1,747.50 |
| DR 60-69 | 115 | £8.74 | £419.40 | £3,725.67 |
| DR 70-79 | 75 | £6.99 | £594.15 | £3,774.60 |
| DR 80-100 | 27 | £34.95 | £1,537.80 | £27,960 |
The DR 30-39 median is lower than the DR 20-29 median. That is not a rounding artefact. It holds across 1,486 sites in those two bands.
Price does not track DR. What it tracks is closer to traffic, editorial reputation, and how much the publisher thinks the placement is worth, which are three different things and none of them is the DR number.
Two other figures are worth holding. 57 percent of these sites sit below DR 30. And there are only 27 sites at DR 80 or above in the entire health category, so anything claiming a large inventory of high-authority health placements is counting something other than authority.
The practical consequence: a cheap high-DR site is not a bargain; it is a question. Ask why it is cheap before you assume you found one.
Health guest post sites list
Twenty-five verified health publishers, currently accepting paid placements, with the price they are actually listed at. These are guest post sites for health brands rather than a general directory. Selection rule, stated openly: health category, at least 1,000 monthly visits, English language, sorted by domain rating. Sites with zero traffic are excluded regardless of DR, and appear in the next section instead.
| Website | DR | Monthly traffic | Focus | Price from |
| msn.com | 92 | 452,052,320 | Finance, health, lifestyle | £242.90 |
| today.com | 90 | 18,591,064 | General news, health | £7,339.50 |
| outsideonline.com | 90 | 5,679,327 | Health, outdoor, travel | £27,960 |
| self.com | 86 | 3,187,947 | Beauty, food, health | £27,960 |
| digitaljournal.com | 86 | 180,177 | Health, technology | £47.18 |
| mindbodygreen.com | 85 | 2,663,322 | Wellness, nutrition | £1,398 |
| floridahealth.gov | 84 | 872,970 | Public health | £1,118.40 |
| medicaldaily.com | 80 | 162,637 | Medical news, science | £9,087 |
| thehealthy.com | 79 | 1,222,160 | General health | £12,162.60 |
| mumsnet.com | 76 | 16,003,342 | Family health | £3,495 |
| womansworld.com | 76 | 2,200,365 | Women’s health, lifestyle | £11,883 |
| beforeitsnews.com | 74 | 1,069,226 | Health, news | £6.99 |
| healthshots.com | 74 | 382,695 | Beauty, health | £2,586.30 |
| onlymyhealth.com | 74 | 273,341 | General health, nutrition | £1,887.30 |
| selfgrowth.com | 74 | 37,323 | Self-improvement, health | £34.95 |
| healthcareittoday.com | 74 | 30,586 | Health technology | £699 |
| healthcarebusinesstoday.com | 74 | 9,117 | Healthcare business | £279.60 |
| intelligentliving.co | 68 | 35,974 | Food, health, lifestyle | £69.90 |
| nycfoodpolicy.org | 67 | 33,869 | Food policy, public health | £69.90 |
| healthbenefitstimes.com | 66 | 9,798 | Nutrition, health | £279.60 |
| fitnessgearandtraining.com | 66 | 5,146 | Fitness | £454.35 |
| emedicodiary.com | 64 | 400,561 | Medical | £314.55 |
| clinicspots.com | 64 | 108,792 | Clinical, health | £69.90 |
| mindbodydad.com | 64 | 18,203 | Family health, parenting | £139.80 |
| medicalresearch.com | 64 | 11,474 | Medical research | £244.65 |
Twenty-five is a smaller list than most. It is smaller on purpose. Every row is a publisher currently selling placements with traffic to justify the price, which is a different thing from a list of health publications that theoretically accept contributions.
Notice the range within a single DR band. At DR 74, one site is £6.99, and another is £2,586.30. The DR is identical. What differs is traffic, editorial standing, and what the publisher believes the placement is worth.
High DR health sites with no traffic
Most guides to this subject list “high DR with no traffic” as a warning sign and leave it there. Here is the count. Of health publishers at DR 60 or above, 46 have zero recorded organic traffic.
| Website | DR | DA | Traffic | Price |
| digitalpress.it.com | 92 | 94 | 0 | £69.90 |
| readixa.it.com | 92 | 94 | 0 | £34.95 |
| dailyscope.it.com | 92 | 94 | 0 | £34.95 |
| trendvista.it.com | 92 | 94 | 0 | £69.90 |
| constanzemerz.com.de | 90 | 35 | 0 | £209.70 |
| newsletterlandingpageexample.com | 83 | 63 | 0 | £34.95 |
Four domains, identical DR 92, identical DA 94, the same unusual suffix, no visitors, and prices under £70. Sites at genuine DR 92 with real audiences in this dataset sell for thousands. These sell for less than a restaurant meal.
That combination has one common explanation. Domain rating is calculated from inbound links, and inbound links can be manufactured. Traffic cannot be, at least not cheaply. When the two disagree this violently, the metric that was easy to influence is the one that moved. The sixth entry is worth reading twice. A domain literally named newsletterlandingpageexample.com carries DR 83.
What to check before buying any placement:
- Organic traffic, not just DR. If it is zero, stop
- Whether the site ranks for anything at all in its stated niche
- Whether the published articles read as written for readers or for links
- The outbound link profile. A site linking out to unrelated commercial pages is selling to everyone.
- Whether DR and DA agree. In the list above, one site is DR 90 and DA 35, which is a 55-point disagreement.
None of this means a low-traffic site is always worthless. It means the price should reflect what is actually there, and £69.90 for a DR 92 domain is the market telling you what it thinks it is worth.
Mental health, fitness, beauty and wellness guest posts
The health category behaves differently depending on which part of it you are in.
Mental health guest posts
Searches for mental health write for mental health guest post opportunities and us have grown faster than any other part of this category. It is also the strictest sub-niche on credentials and the most careful on tone. Publications here expect either a professional qualification or genuine lived experience, and they can tell the difference between the two quickly. Content that reads as instructional rather than supportive is declined. In exchange, the editorial relationships last longer than anywhere else in health, and repeat contributors are common.
Fitness and wellness guest posts
A fitness guest post is the most accessible entry point in this category. Practical experience substitutes for formal qualification, turnaround is faster, and rates on the paid side are lower. The trade is that the category overlaps heavily with lifestyle, so relevance is diluted unless the publication is genuinely fitness-focused.
Beauty and lifestyle guest posts
Closest to consumer publishing and furthest from medicine. Editorial standards are the lowest in the category and acceptance is the fastest. Useful for skincare, cosmetic and aesthetic brands, and largely irrelevant for anything clinical. Women’s health sits across all three and is consistently underserved, which makes it the easiest genuine gap to pitch into.
How to submit a guest post to a health blog
The process to submit guest post articles is the same whether the site is free or paid, up to the point of payment.
- Shortlist ten sites, using the qualification checks above rather than a published health blog guest post list.
- Verify each one is alive. Recent outside bylines, published in the last quarter
- Read the guidelines properly. Word count, citation policy, bio length, link rules
- Pitch three angles, using the template above
- Wait a week, then follow up once. One line. Not a repeat of the pitch
- Write to the guideline, not to your preference. The most common cause of a late rejection is an accepted pitch delivered at the wrong length with the wrong sourcing.
- Cite primary sources. Research, health bodies, published studies. Not other blogs
- Send it clean. Formatted, proofread, images suggested or supplied
If nothing lands after ten pitches, the problem is nearly always the credential line rather than the writing.
What to do after your health guest post goes live
- Check the link is still there in thirty days. Links get removed, and nofollow attributes get added quietly.
- Confirm the attribute. A paid placement should carry rel="sponsored". An editorial one should not. If a site you paid gives you a plain dofollow, that is their compliance problem becoming yours.
- Answer the comments. Active contributors get invited back, and an invitation is worth more than the placement.
- Pitch again inside sixty days. Returning contributors skip the cold queue entirely. This is the single highest-return action on the list, and almost nobody does it.
Health guest posting for SEO and backlinks
One placement changes nothing. That is worth saying plainly, because most disappointment in this niche comes from expecting a single link to move a ranking.
What works is a pattern: relevant health publications, real audiences, over months. What does not work is a burst of placements on high-DR sites with no readers, which is the exact shape the section above describes.
Health is a YMYL category, so the sites Google trusts on health subjects are trusted specifically because of their editorial and expertise signals. A link from a health publication with real medical review carries something a general site cannot pass, no matter what its DR says.
The two routes are not in competition. A small number of earned editorial placements builds credibility, and paid placements on genuinely relevant sites with real traffic add coverage faster than pitching alone can. What ruins the profile is buying volume at the bottom of the market because it was cheap.
Hire freelance health guest posting and outreach experts on Osdire.
Most people reading this need one of two things, and they are different jobs. If you want a placement on a specific named publication, that is a marketplace purchase, and the prices above tell you what to expect.
If you want somebody to build the shortlist, qualify the sites, write pitches that clear a health editor’s filter, and produce articles good enough to be accepted, that is outreach work, and freelancers do it from $10 on Osdire.
Where to start:
- Guest posting services for placement and outreach campaigns, with sellers listing from $10
- Off-page SEO if you need the strategy rather than the execution, from $5
- Content writing if you have the placements and need the articles
- Outreach for the pitching and follow-up work alone
- SEO services for everything above the link layer
For health specifically, look for writers who can show published health bylines rather than general content samples. The credential bar is the constraint in this niche, and a writer who has cleared it before will clear it again.
Health guest posting: the six numbers that matter
- Median price across 3,931 health publishers is £104.85
- 57 percent of health sites selling placements sit below DR 30
- 46 sites at DR 60 or above have zero recorded traffic, four of them at DR 92
- Price does not track DR. The DR 30-39 median is lower than the DR 20-29 median.
- Health is a YMYL niche, so author credentials decide acceptance more often than writing quality does
- Paid placements must carry rel="sponsored". Editorial ones do not.
If you take one of those away, take the third. It is the cheapest mistake to avoid and the most expensive one to make repeatedly.
FAQs
Can you get health guest posts for free?
A free guest post in health is possible through editorial pitching rather than payment, and it works better in health than in most niches because the credential requirement thins the competition. What it costs instead is time. Expect two to eight weeks per placement and a rejection rate high enough that ten pitches producing two placements is a normal outcome.
How much does a health guest post cost?
The median across 3,931 health publishers with listed prices is £104.85. The range runs from £6.99 to £27,960. Cost is driven by traffic and editorial standing rather than by domain rating, which is why sites with identical DR can differ in price by a factor of several hundred.
Do health guest posts need a medical author?
For clinical and medical publications, in practice yes, and this is the most common reason good pitches are declined. For fitness, nutrition and wellness sites, demonstrable practical experience is usually accepted in place of a formal qualification. For beauty and lifestyle health, neither is normally required.
How long does it take to get a free health guest post published?
Two to eight weeks from pitch to publication is normal, and the majority of that is waiting rather than writing. Larger publications take longer and frequently do not reply at all when declining. Follow up once after a week, then move on.
Is a DR 90 health site always better than a DR 40 one?
No. In this dataset, 46 sites at DR 60 or above have zero organic traffic, including four at DR 92 selling for under £70. A DR 40 publication with a real readership in your specific health subject is worth more than a DR 90 domain nobody visits.
Do paid health guest posts need a sponsored tag?
Paid placements should carry rel="sponsored" on the link. This is a publisher obligation rather than a buyer one, but the consequences of it being missing land on the site being linked to, so it is worth confirming before and after the article goes live.
