A website that lists websites to submit your website to

Posted by azeemkafridi 7 hours ago

A website that lists websites to submit your website to(www.submission.directory)

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pembrook 4 hours ago|

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but backlinks has never been less important for SEO than they are right now.

Google has slowly de-prioritized them as a ranking signal over time due to the constant abuse, the death of the blogosphere (the vast majority of websites are now corporate blogspam with few legitimate organic links), and the fact that every major social platform now de-ranks posts with external links in them (to keep people on-site).

And as far as I know the crawlers in LLMs don't use backlinks as a signal at all.

kbelder 3 hours ago|

That will soon make these sorts of lists more useful, as their usefulness to spammers/seo optimizers diminishes.

NKosmatos 4 hours ago||

It should be called Ouroboros ;-)

chamara2004 4 hours ago||

I really like the website

deadbabe 5 hours ago||

Since search engines are going to be replaced by AI, is there now potential for old school hand curated web directories like we had in the late 1900s to surface again?

Lists of websites hand curated by categories and topics, and even certified to have AI free content, could be cool.

thelonelyborg 3 hours ago||

cool tool

stackghost 5 hours ago||

Hmm, the top item on the page is Medium, and underneath the description begins with "High-authority publishing platform".

That is... not the popular assessment of Medium these days. At one point, Medium and the other minimalist one whose name I can't remember (edit: it was Svbtle) were seen as high-prestige and high-signal platforms.

Nowadays Medium is just AI slop and low-effort surface-level takes from people trying to build a personal brand.

holistio 5 hours ago||

I'm building something that's not very far from how you describe (and how I also used to see) Medium.

What do you think could have prevented its downfall?

stackghost 4 hours ago||

The initial appeal of Medium and Svbtle, which was the other one I was thinking of, was that almost any time you saw an article from them it was usually high-quality. With their simplistic dark-on-light themes they looked visually distinct (especially Svbtle) from the popular blogging platforms at the time. There were no ads, no calls to action, no fucking modal "you need an account to keep reading" popups, etc. I seem to recall that Svbtle and Medium both began as invite-only, so the set of authors was highly curated.

Thus, the reading experience was fantastic.

As soon as they opened up to everyone, almost right away the quality dropped. All of a sudden Medium in particular was chock full of shallow "man page disguised as a blog post" posts and "tutorials" from people trying to build their own personal brands. It became a firehose of mediocrity.

Substack is currently experiencing the same cycle.

Ultimately I think, if you want to preserve the elite/luxury/exclusivity reputation, you need to impose artificial scarcity and resist the urge to "hyperscale" or whatever.

busymom0 5 hours ago||

I hate how medium articles keep showing up at top of my search results. I googled a coding problem. First link was a medium tutorial. I click and mid way, it's asking me to sign up to read more. Ugh. I sign up and then it wants me to go through a few pages of topics I'd like to choose and what not. Then I finally end up at the tutorial I was trying to read and it's blocked behind a pay wall. Wtf.

dmoose 3 hours ago||

Kagi search filters. I've had medium blocked since I first signed up. Occasionally I search from other peoples machines and realize how much crap on Medium I've just forgotten about. There are a lot of things to like about Kagi but the ease of removing junk sites from search results is near the top.

m_w_ 4 hours ago||

No one takes g2 and product hunt seriously right?

snowhy 5 hours ago||

great, now i need a skill to do it on my behalf

Imustaskforhelp 6 hours ago|

For anyone curious about what all the links are, here are all the 50 websites that the directory links to.

1. Medium : https://medium.com

2. Crunchbase : https://crunchbase.com

3. Hacker News : https://news.ycombinator.com

4. Product Hunt : https://producthunt.com

5. Reddit r/SideProject : https://reddit.com

6. Slashdot : https://slashdot.org

7. G2 : https://g2.com

8. Awwwards : https://awwwards.com

9. Capterra : https://capterra.com

10. Dev.to : https://dev.to

11. AlternativeTo : https://alternativeto.net

12. HackerNoon : https://hackernoon.com

13. GetApp : https://getapp.com

14. Software Advice : https://softwareadvice.com

15. Designer News : https://designernews.co

16. F6S : https://f6s.com

17. Indie Hackers : https://indiehackers.com

18. One Page Love : https://onepagelove.com

19. StackShare : https://stackshare.io

20. Hashnode : https://hashnode.com

21. There's An AI For That : https://theresanaiforthat.com

22. Land-book : https://land-book.com

23. BetaList : https://betalist.com

24. Futurepedia : https://futurepedia.io

25. Lobsters : https://lobste.rs

26. Peerlist : https://peerlist.io

27. Futuretools : https://futuretools.io

28. Startup Stash : https://startupstash.com

29. Toolify : https://toolify.ai

30. Httpster : https://httpster.net

31. SaaSHub : https://saashub.com

32. Sidebar : https://sidebar.io

33. Tekpon : https://tekpon.com

34. AllTopStartups : https://alltopstartups.com

35. SaaSworthy : https://saasworthy.com

36. SaaS Landing Page : https://saaslandingpage.com

37. Betapage : https://betapage.co

38. Launching Next : https://launchingnext.com

39. DevHunt : https://devhunt.org

40. Insidr AI : https://insidr.ai

41. SideProjectors : https://sideprojectors.com

42. Startup Fame : https://startupfa.me

43. StartupBase : https://startupbase.io

44. Uneed : https://uneed.best

45. SaaS AI Tools : https://saasaitools.com

46. AngelList : https://angel.co

47. GitHub Trending : https://github.com/trending

48. Dribbble : https://dribbble.com

49. Behance : https://behance.net

50. TechCrunch : https://techcrunch.com

GL26 6 hours ago|

how can you make it so the blog of another company mentions your website so you get better SEO ?

econ 18 minutes ago|||

Submit a well researched article that fits their blog perfectly and a link to your own blog full of excessive details at the end.

Imustaskforhelp 6 hours ago|||

I am not within the SEO world so I can't answer this question, sorry but I recommend asking it to other people or if other people can answer it.

My naive interpretation would be to build tools which other companies want to use but its a bit of chicken and egg problem and maybe these directories help in fixing the issue in the first place of this problem.

Also, with LLM's, I imagine that there are some websites which use AI for writing texts but the thing is that I'd much prefer my things to not be mentioned by them even if it increases the SEO because I'd prefer not my product if I build one when searched to be filled with slop results, and also, everyone is within the rush for gold mines and so we are forgetting writing for the sake of it but there are few people who write blogs for the sake of writing.

Perhaps I recommend looking at some blogging websites and asking them to test your website but this isn't company blog. I think that is a high bar to achieve but I wish you look in doing so and hope someone who's more experienced in SEO can answer it for ya.

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