Tutorials
How directory listings actually work, written from what we measure rather than what the industry repeats. Every figure on these pages comes from the 1445 destinations we re-probe daily, so none of them can quietly go stale.
How to submit your app to a directory
The whole loop end to end — what to prepare, what a form asks for, and why the confirmation email is not the finish line.
6 min readHow to write a listing that gets approved
What editors reject, what the field labels really mean, and the nine pieces of copy to prepare before you open a form.
5 min readDofollow vs nofollow: what a directory listing is actually worth
What rel=nofollow, sponsored and ugc do, how to read a link in ten seconds, and why nofollow can still be worth having.
4 min readHow to check a listing is actually live
Approved, scheduled and confirmed are claims. The only proof is the public page rendering your name to somebody with no cookies.
3 min readHow to spot a directory worth submitting to
Four one-minute checks that rule out most of the list — including the link farms wearing a directory's clothes.
5 min readLogin walls, paid tiers and the forms that are not there
Most destinations do not take a plain form. Every route we've measured, what each costs in time, and which to skip.
5 min readWhy these six
They are the questions that decide whether a submission campaign produces listings or receipts: what to prepare, how to write it, what the link is worth, how to prove publication, which destinations deserve the evening, and what to do when there is no form on the page. Everything else is detail.
What is deliberately not here
A guide per directory. We hold a playbook for each of the 1445 destinations we track, but they are operational notes, and publishing a thousand near-identical pages would make this site the shape of the thing it argues against.