Ranking rules

The weekly board

The board runs on ISO weeks and a new one opens every Monday. Last week’s result is archived, not overwritten.

• A week runs Monday 00:00 UTC to Sunday 23:59 UTC.
• The board is ordered by this week’s votes, high to low. The number shown counts this week only, not all time.
• When the week closes, the order is locked and archived. Past weeks are never recalculated.

Votes

• You must be signed in to vote. An anonymous vote is refused outright, not silently dropped.
• One person gets one vote per product per week. Sending it twice does not count twice.
• A vote is worth one — it is not weighted by account age, and counts are never hidden.
• A vote is not a rating. There are no stars and no scores here; do not read the count as a quality score.

Listing and review

Free listings are reviewed by a person. Paid listings publish automatically once payment succeeds. Every listing stays subject to the Acceptable Use Policy after it goes live, and we may edit or remove it.

• Free: manual review, usually 7–14 days, not guaranteed. Busy periods take longer.
• Standard, Featured and Pro: a signed payment webhook settles the order and publishes the page automatically once payment succeeds — nobody confirms the receipt by hand.
• Rejected or taken down after publication: spam, submissions made only for the backlink, scams, malware and phishing, adult content, harassment and hate, illegal goods or services, gambling, products you do not own, unreachable sites, and duplicate domains.
• The full list, and what happens when it is enforced, is in the Acceptable Use Policy in our terms.

Read the Acceptable Use Policy

Link policy

• Paid listings: permanent dofollow, no badge, no re-checking.
• Free listings: nofollow, so no authority passes. The page stays up and still competes on the weekly board.
• Featured pins the listing to the top of the directory and category for 7 days, then it drops back to Standard ordering. The link does not change.
• Pro pins it to the top of its category page for 90 days.

Paying never changes rank

Paying buys three things: a dofollow link, a higher position in the directory, and a pin for a fixed period. It does not buy votes.

• A payment adds no votes, changes no vote’s weight, and moves nothing up the board.
• Paid and free listings compete on the same weekly board, on the same vote count.
• Directory order, where paid listings come first, is a different thing from board order, which is votes first. They are not the same list.

Ad slots

Billboard is bought once. The sidebar is still rented by the week, starting Monday, for seven days.

• Billboard is name-your-price from $10, one-time. Rank follows total backed. It is not inserted into the weekly vote list. Was from $15.
• Sidebar slot $9 a week, in the rail on the homepage and the just-added feed; $32 for four weeks.
• Every ad link carries rel="sponsored nofollow" and passes no authority. A paid link that passes PageRank is exactly what search engines penalise.
• Booking a slot needs neither a submission nor an account, and a slot never affects board rank.
• One slot, one week, one buyer. A week that is already taken does not appear as available.

Billing and refunds

• Everything is a one-time payment: no subscription, no auto-renewal, no credits.
• The refund conditions, review deadlines and payout times are in the billing section of our terms, and that is the version that applies.
• A paid listing removed for breaking the Acceptable Use Policy is not refunded.

Read the billing, refund and cancellation terms