Which SaaS URL Should the Link Point At?

Checkout has one target field. Teams paste the root domain because it is what they remember. The root domain's job is to introduce the company. A comparison article's job is to finish a thought. The href should continue the thought. Ledgerline is the teaching product, not a customer. Put your real paths in this table before you open a row.

The yes is /renewals because the brief in the format guide puts the link in the approval-trail paragraph. If your real post is about price, the yes moves to /pricing and the brief has to change with it. Two yeses mean you are trying to make one guest post do two campaigns. Split the orders. One href each. The second href is a later week in the campaign calendar, not a second anchor in Tuesday's draft.

SAAS-102 is reviews: DR 58, 34,500 visits, guest post $119, sample path a /saas/ slug, TAT 4 days. Use it when the story is a review of the renewals workflow. SAAS-109 is comparisons: DR 67, 94,200 visits, guest post $179, sample path a /compare/ slug, TAT 4 days. Use it when the story compares a spreadsheet with a system. The sample path is how they file stories. It is not your target URL. Your target stays /renewals. Their path tells you whether the editor already has a slot.

A docs-shaped story does not get either row. If the public page is a how-to, look at DEV-103, the tutorial row, DR 71, $229, 145,000 visits, TAT 5 days, sample path a /tutorials/ slug. Only if the how-to is something a developer audience would read. A finance UI tutorial may still be SAAS-102. Write the sentence: 'A B2B review site would assign this.' If you cannot, you have the wrong code, not a shy editor.

Open the yes-URL in a private window before you paste it into checkout. Fail it if you hit a login, a cookie wall that never reveals the text, a canonical pointing at a different path, or a noindex. The referring page can be perfect and the link still wastes the crawl. The fix is a public URL, not a louder anchor.

Pricing fails a second way. If the number will be wrong in ten days, do not let the writer quote it. Link to pricing only when the post is about cost, and tell them to describe the unit (per workspace, per renewal) without a dollar figure if the dollar figure moves. You own that accuracy. The desk writing the 1,000 words does not have your billing system. The toggle that says you will supply the draft does not move the responsibility either. Whoever writes, the href has to resolve to the page you named.

Search Console exports for the campaign are filtered to the yes-URL. Homepage clicks are a different product. A lift on the homepage after a mention of the brand is a mention effect. It is not evidence the renewals page moved. The anchor guide counts referring domains to one URL for the same reason. If you point week 1 at /renewals and week 4 at /pricing, you have two profiles and two exports. The calendar only works if week 4 is a deliberate second URL, written down, not an accident in the href.

The draft is otherwise fine and the anchor is Ledgerline. The href is https://ledgerline.example/ because the writer 'was not sure the deep link would last.' Reply before scheduling: 'Change the href to https://ledgerline.example/renewals. Do not publish the homepage link.' A homepage href throws away the table you filled. It also pollutes the homepage's referring-domain profile with an anchor that belonged on a feature page. Fixing it after publication is a second negotiation. Fixing it in the draft is one sentence.

If the deep link 404s on the morning of delivery because you renamed the path, that is your change, not theirs. Publish a redirect that preserves the path you ordered, or send a corrected href before they press publish. Do not ask them to 'pick whatever page loads.' They will pick the homepage. You already know that.