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Re: A website that lists websites to submit your website to

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Post by pembrook »

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.

Re: A website that lists websites to submit your website to

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Post by marc »

Fun story:

I built BetaList 16 years ago which was one of the first "product discovery" platforms. Years before Product Hunt, etc.

I manually reviewed every submission and unfortunately often I had to tell founders that their startup didn't qualify to be included. Almost everyone would (understandably!) argue their case, but as volume increased I couldn't afford to go into a deep argument with every single founder.

That's when I made https://submit.co a site similar to OP's. The idea being that instead of say "No, we will not feature your startup" I now gave them an alternative place to put their energy.

Initially it was mostly a list of tech blogs, but as more product discovery platforms popped up, I started adding them too. In a sense, I was promoting my competition but it was exactly the startups we couldn't list any way for one reason or another.

Eventually that list of "places to submit your startup" got so popular (and copied everywhere ) that it started driving traffic back to BetaList. (I included it at the very top of the list).

Re: A website that lists websites to submit your website to

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Post by exhaze »

susam wrote: post #46

I have been maintaining my own metalist of directories where one can submit their indie/personal websites to. In alphabetical order, here is what it looks like right now: https://blogroll.org/ https://blogs.hn/ (by @surprisetalk) https://hnpwd.github.io/ (I am one of the maintainers) https://iii.social/ (by @freshman_dev) https://indieblog.page/ (by @splitbrain) https://kagi.com/smallweb/ (by @freediver) https://marg…

Nice! Just added your comment to my list of Perl script-inspired lists

Re: A website that lists websites to submit your website to

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Post by dd8601fn »

wslh wrote: post #41
rognjen wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And don't forget StumbleUpon...

Speaking of StumbleUpon, I'm not sure whether this was just luck or something about its recommendation algorithm/social graph, but it was the only service where I didn't see the usual flood of traffic followed by rapid decay, the classic Slashdot/HN effect. The curve felt much smoother. I remember some bloggers at the time describing the same thing [1]. I'd be curious if anyone knows more details. [1] https://mark.bl…

I can see how that kinda makes sense.

We used StumbleUpon to visit interesting sites we wouldn’t otherwise find. It didn’t exist to keep you deeply engaged with a main StumbleUpon website.

The aggregators are meant to be the destination. The links are more like shiny dangling lures. Some of them (reddit) do everything they can to keep you from having a reason to leave the page at all.

So I suppose it would follow that one gets people engaged in your site, while the other kinda tries to keep them from doing that.

Re: A website that lists websites to submit your website to

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Post by kilobaud »

marc wrote: post #52

Fun story: I built BetaList 16 years ago which was one of the first "product discovery" platforms. Years before Product Hunt, etc. I manually reviewed every submission and unfortunately often I had to tell founders that their startup didn't qualify to be included. Almost everyone would (understandably!) argue their case, but as volume increased I couldn't afford to go into a deep argument with every single founder. T…

Thanks for helping us launch LocalXpose however many years ago. I know it seems like product promotion is (rightfully) something to always be wary of, but I appreciate the forums you’ve provided startups hoping to find early adopters. We are (relatively speaking) successful nobodies, but I wonder if you have any memories of sites that “blew up” after being added on BetaList?

Re: A website that lists websites to submit your website to

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Post by kube-system »

firefoxd wrote: post #29

While i appreciate that there are websites where you can list your website, compiling them in a publicly available list is a recipe for spam. Rather than post links to your websites on these websites, you need to share your website with your community. Imagine never using HN and then posting a show HN. You'll probably quickly get your domain banned. When you are part of a website community, it's much easier to unders…

> Imagine never using HN and then posting a show HN.

There's three green accounts on the front page of /show right now

Re: A website that lists websites to submit your website to

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Post by wenbin »

At listennotes.com , we have to delete tons of fake podcasts submitted to our site [1]

why do people create fake podcasts? they want to get backlinks from all podcast directories

podcasts are distributed via rss feed. and spammers/"growth hackers" put tons of links in the rss feed.

and podcast hosting services (especially those allow free trials, e.g., rss.com, ) could help them one-click to distribute to a bunch of podcast apps / websites. this is like one-click large scale spamming automation

any examples? here you go -

* https://podcasts.apple.com/us/search?term=UU88%20

* https://podcasts.apple.com/us/search?term=%E6%B6%A8%E7%B2%89

* https://open.spotify.com/search/%E6%B6%A8%E7%B2%89/podcasts

most podcast websites / apps don't delete fake podcasts like we do at listennotes.com . so i guess the backlink hack w/ fake podcasts works. real human podcast listeners might suffer with spammy fake shows even on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

[1] https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-stats/#growth

Re: A website that lists websites to submit your website to

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Post by Cider9986 »

FMHY (Free Media Heck Yeah) is my favorite website directory.

It has steadily grown far beyond just sharing free media and has everything from free AI and free education to free cooking websites.

It's probably a significant contributor to the recent return of piracy giving users constantly up to date and safe resources.

Website: https://fmhy.net

Github: https://github.com/fmhy

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