How to Get Featured in Slashdot
Slashdot draws about 2.6 million monthly visits, holds a domain rating of 87, passes a do-follow link, and publishes in about a week.
An audience that has seen everything
Slashdot has run since 1997 and is the original technology news community: links, summaries and an enormous, famously unsparing comment thread beneath each one. About 2.6 million monthly visits at a domain rating of 87, with a do-follow link.
Its readers are engineers, sysadmins and developers, many of whom have been reading it for twenty years. They are not an audience to be marketed at, and the comments will say so if you try. What works is something technically substantive that they find genuinely interesting.
The routes in
Technical news with real substance.
Open source and infrastructure, long-standing subjects.
Security and privacy stories.
Policy and technology regulation.
A placed feature, written and approved by you before it runs. That is what we handle, and it is a different product from an editor there choosing to write about you.
How long it takes
About a week. About average. Plan for the top of the range rather than the bottom, and remember your own approval sits inside the window rather than after it.
Links and indexing
Do-follow, at a domain rating of 87. That is uncommon at this size: across our catalogue the larger a publication is, the less likely it is to pass authority, which is the whole finding in which publications give do-follow links.
It indexes and AI engines read it, so the piece works as a citation when someone asks an assistant about you, not only as a link.
What gets turned down
Marketing copy, which the comment section exists to dismantle.
Claims that cannot be checked.
Consumer products with no technical dimension.
Who it suits
Open source and infrastructure companies. Security vendors. Developer tooling. Technical founders with something real to say. Anyone who wants a high-authority do-follow link from a technical community.
The short version
2.6 million monthly visits, domain rating 87, do-follow, about a week. The original technical community, and one of the few at that authority that links.
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Frequently asked questions
01How do you get featured in Slashdot?
Three routes: pitch an editor directly, be quoted as an expert in a piece they are already writing, or use a placement service. We write the article, you approve every word, and we secure the placement. Slashdot draws about 2.6 million monthly visits and publishes in about a week.
02How long does it take to get published in Slashdot?
About about a week from approval to publication, against a market average of roughly two weeks. Your own review sits inside that window rather than after it.
03Does Slashdot give a do-follow link?
Slashdot passes a do-follow link, at a domain rating of 87. That is unusual at this size, because the larger a publication is the less likely it is to pass authority.
04What works on Slashdot?
Something technically substantive that an engineer finds genuinely interesting. The readership is engineers, sysadmins and developers, many reading since the nineties, and the comment thread beneath each item is famously unsparing. Marketing copy does not survive it; open source, infrastructure and security stories do.
