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Search Engine Land

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Search marketing news site owned by Semrush. News and feature pitches go to its editors' address, contributed articles are by invitation only, and sponsored articles of up to 1,500 words are sold through Third Door Media.

Search Engine Land is a tech publication at searchengineland.com. It covers AI startups, with a rule: search marketing topics only. Listing is free, with paid spots on offer. The link you get is sponsored: links in a sponsored article carry rel="sponsored" and rel="nofollow", as stated on the Third Door Media sales page. Review: it replies only to pitches it wants to pursue and says it favours independent sources over company representatives; contributed articles and speaking slots are by invitation only. Terms read on searchengineland.com on 3 October 2026.

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Price: Free to pitch news or features; sponsored articles through Third Door Media's sales team, no price stated
Link you get: Sponsored: links in a sponsored article carry rel="sponsored" and rel="nofollow", as stated on the Third Door Media sales page
Review: It replies only to pitches it wants to pursue and says it favours independent sources over company representatives; contributed articles and speaking slots are by invitation only
Run by: Semrush
Their rule: Search marketing topics only
Lists: AI marketing and SEO tools only
Where they say so: searchengineland.com/contact ↗
Reach: HugeHuge reach: #3,932 by traffic in the Tranco top million; #1,003 of about 120 million domains by links in Common Crawl's web graph.
Checked: 3 October 2026, on its own pages

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Does Search Engine Land cover AI startups?: Only some. It covers AI startups, with a rule: search marketing topics only.
How much does a listing on Search Engine Land cost?: Listing is free, with paid spots on offer.
What link does Search Engine Land give?: The link you get is sponsored: links in a sponsored article carry rel="sponsored" and rel="nofollow", as stated on the Third Door Media sales page.

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3. Wait for the review. It replies only to pitches it wants to pursue and says it favours independent sources over company representatives; contributed articles and speaking slots are by invitation only. Pay only for a spot you asked for; the listing itself is what the price above says. Mark the result in your tracker yourself: our checks cannot read this site.

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