Every legal guest post list looks the same at first glance: a column of domains, a DR number and a price. I took the 37 law sites on my current list and compared the three numbers a buyer actually looks at. The short version: price follows traffic, not DR, and a high DR on a legal site tells you surprisingly little about whether anyone reads it.
The data set
The list has 37 English-language legal sites that accept guest posts, compiled in August 2026. Nothing was cherry-picked: it's the whole law list. For each site I used three numbers:
- DR (Domain Rating) from Ahrefs, a 0–100 score for the strength of a site's backlink profile.
- Traffic: estimated monthly organic search visits. Estimates are rough, but good enough to separate sites with readers from sites without.
- Price: the per-post price shown on this site in September 2026.
Metrics move every month, so treat the figures as a snapshot of one list, not a law of the market.
Finding 1: price follows traffic, not DR
I ranked the sites by price, traffic and DR and measured how closely the rankings move together (Spearman rank correlation: 1 means they rise together perfectly, 0 means no relationship). Price and traffic scored 0.44, a clear link. Price and DR scored −0.05, which is no relationship at all.
Sites with real readers charge more, which is fair. But look at the first bar. Sites with under 100 visits a month had a higher median price ($150) than sites with 100 to 999 visits ($112.50). Some low-traffic sites price themselves on DR alone, and buyers who shop by DR pay for it.
Finding 2: a high DR on a legal site says little about readers
Nine sites on the list have a DR of 60 or more. Five of those nine get fewer than 200 organic visits a month. Across the whole list, DR and traffic didn't rise together at all (rank correlation −0.14). The lowest DR band actually had the highest median traffic:
| DR band | Sites | Median monthly traffic | Median price | Sites with 1,000+ visits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 40 | 10 | 1,210 | $165 | 5 |
| 40 to 49 | 4 | 827 | $225 | 2 |
| 50 to 59 | 14 | 303 | $169 | 6 |
| 60 and above | 9 | 167 | $135 | 4 |
DR measures links pointing at a site. It doesn't measure whether Google sends the site visitors. A DR 71 domain with almost no search traffic has plenty of links, but Google isn't ranking its content, and that gap is worth asking about before you pay.
Finding 3: nine law-firm domains, very few readers
Nine of the 37 domains carry the name of an individual law firm or attorney. Their DRs run from 48 to 71, yet seven of the nine had under 250 organic visits a month (median 167). They sit at the cheaper end of the list, $105 to $180 a post.
A practising firm selling guest posts on its own site is unusual. Sometimes it's a firm with an active blog; sometimes it's an old firm domain that changed hands and is now kept for its links. Before paying, look the domain up in the Wayback Machine and check that the firm still exists. I'm not naming these sites: a low traffic estimate isn't proof of anything, and some may suit a specific brief.
Finding 4: the biggest numbers may be the wrong audience
The two largest sites by traffic, lawrato.com (about 821,000 visits a month) and lawctopus.com (about 93,000), are both built for readers in India: one helps people find lawyers, the other is a legal careers portal. That's valuable for brands targeting India or legal education, and much less so for a personal-injury firm in Texas.
The reverse also happens. lawnews.co.uk has a modest DR of 33 but around 7,500 visits a month and a clear UK legal audience, which makes it a better fit for a UK firm than many higher-DR sites.
Where the value was
Six sites combined 1,000+ monthly visits with a price of $180 or less. Four of them, excluding the law-firm domains above:
| Site | DR | Monthly traffic | Price per post |
|---|---|---|---|
| lawfuel.com | 55 | ~1,400 | $90 |
| lawjurist.com | 14 | ~2,100 | $128 |
| lawandtrends.com | 62 | ~5,400 | $135 |
| lawnews.co.uk (UK) | 33 | ~7,500 | $180 |
Note lawjurist.com: a DR of 14 would get it thrown out by any "DR 30+" filter, yet it has more organic traffic than most of the DR 60+ sites. Value still depends on your market and practice area, so check the audience country and topics before ordering.
What this means if you're buying legal guest posts
- Filter by traffic first, then DR. A floor of around 1,000 monthly organic visits removed most of the weak sites in this list. It's why the featured list on the law guest posts page shows sites with 1,000+ visits first.
- Check traffic by country. A big number from the wrong country won't help a local firm.
- Ask about high-DR, low-traffic sites. Check the domain's history and recent posts before paying for DR alone.
- Compare price with real readers, not DR points. The cheapest sites with genuine traffic were priced below several sites with none.
- Match the practice area. A site that covers injury claims beats a general law blog for a personal-injury page.
For the full checklist I use before a legal site goes on a shortlist, read how to vet a legal guest post site.
Method: 37 sites, one list, one month. Traffic figures are third-party estimates and DR is a third-party score, not Google data. Correlations describe this list only.