Launch notes, checked against reality
Most launch advice on the internet was written years ago and quietly went stale. We re-check every claim against Product Hunt's own documentation before we publish it, and we put the date we checked on the page so you can tell how old the answer is.
Backlinks · Nov 15, 2026 · 15 min
Social Bookmarking Sites in 2026: Which Still Work
157 sites from seven top lists, opened one by one on 12 Nov 2026: what still loads, what is for sale and which links are followed.
Read it →SEO · Nov 15, 2026 · 14 min
Disavow Backlinks: When Google's Disavow Tool Is Worth It
Google's disavow tool against its own two conditions: when to use it, the file, negative SEO and what a spam score means.
Read it →Backlinks · Nov 14, 2026 · 14 min
Anchor Text: Types, Ratios and What Directories Link With
Anchor text types with HTML examples, the ratio question and what 48 directories really link a listing with.
Read it →Marketing · Nov 14, 2026 · 16 min
SaaS Landing Page: What to Put on It, With Examples
We read 83 SaaS landing pages the top example lists recommend and counted what they carry, from the headline to the price.
Read it →SEO · Nov 13, 2026 · 12 min
Off-Page SEO: Techniques, a Checklist and What Each Costs
Eleven off-page SEO techniques, each priced on its provider's own page, with Google's own words on links and a checklist for a new product.
Read it →Playbook · Nov 13, 2026 · 15 min
Beta Testers: Where to Find Them and What Beta Testing Costs
Where a founder finds beta testers, what each place asks and costs and how to run a beta test.
Read it →Backlinks · Nov 12, 2026 · 13 min
What Is a Backlink? Types, Examples and How They Work
Someone else's link to your site: the 11 types, who does the work for each and five real backlinks read on live pages.
Read it →Playbook · Nov 12, 2026 · 15 min
Early Adopters: Who They Are and Where to Find Them
Who early adopters are, the adoption curve in one table and where a software founder meets them, each channel priced on its own page.
Read it →Marketing · Nov 11, 2026 · 14 min
SaaS Marketing: Channels by Stage and What Agencies Charge
Which SaaS marketing channel comes first, what each costs and what agencies charge on their own sites.
Read it →Playbook · Nov 11, 2026 · 12 min
How to Promote a Website: Free and Paid Channels, Priced
Twelve ways to promote a website, what each one costs on its own page and what is still up once the posting or the spending stops.
Read it →Directories · Nov 10, 2026 · 11 min
Directory Submission Statistics: What Happened to 8,467 Submissions
How many of our submissions from July to November 2026 landed, how fast they landed and how many were closed without a listing.
Read it →Agencies · Nov 10, 2026 · 12 min
SEO Reseller Programs: What You Resell and What It Costs
The seven lines an SEO reseller program sells, priced on the programs' own pages, and the directory line an agency can resell first.
Read it →Directories · Nov 9, 2026 · 12 min
Directory Submission Cost: Free, Paid Tiers or a Service
Free listings, nine paid tiers and 25 directory submission services, priced on 10 Nov 2026 against our plans.
Read it →How to · Nov 9, 2026 · 11 min
Directory Submission Checklist: Everything to Prepare Once
Everything to prepare once before the first form: the facts, the image sizes directories set, logins, badges and a sheet to track it all.
Read it →Playbook · Nov 8, 2026 · 12 min
Product Launch Checklist for a SaaS or AI Tool, Week by Week
Five stages from eight weeks out to 30 days after, each a line to tick, with free launch queues read on 10 Nov 2026 and a template to copy.
Read it →Assets · Nov 8, 2026 · 13 min
Product Description Examples for Software, Sized to Each Field
One made-up product written at every length a listing form asks for, from a tagline for a 30-character field to a 500-character description.
Read it →Link building · Nov 7, 2026 · 13 min
White Hat Link Building: Where Google Draws the Line
Google's link spam list, kind by kind: who decides each link and where directory listings sit on the line.
Read it →SEO · Nov 7, 2026 · 12 min
SaaS SEO: A Strategy by Page Type and What Agencies Charge
The pages a SaaS needs for search, in the order buyers read them, this site counted as the example and what agencies charge.
Read it →Link building · Nov 6, 2026 · 12 min
Link Building Services: What They Sell and What a Link Costs
Link building services priced on their own sites: what one link costs by type, who picks the site and where directory listings sit.
Read it →Backlinks · Nov 6, 2026 · 9 min
High Quality Backlinks: Seven Markers You Can Check Yourself
Seven markers of a high quality backlink, a one-minute free check for each and what our catalog records against them.
Read it →Link building · Nov 5, 2026 · 13 min
SaaS Link Building: Where a SaaS Gets Links and What Each Costs
Where a SaaS gets its links, who decides each one and what six agencies charge per link, read on their own sites.
Read it →Tools · Nov 5, 2026 · 13 min
Link Building Tools: What the Top Lists Name and What Each Costs
Which tools the top-ranking lists of link building tools name most, what each costs by job and the step none of them takes.
Read it →Backlinks · Nov 4, 2026 · 13 min
Dofollow Backlinks: Which Sites Give Them and What One Costs
192 of our six sites' 590 strongest referring domains pass a followed link: which sources do and what one costs.
Read it →SEO · Nov 4, 2026 · 14 min
SEO for Startups: A Plan for a New Domain
47% of the 3,823 phrases in our keyword research had KD 10 or less. A new domain's plan: the first 30 days, pages that sell and first links.
Read it →Link building · Nov 3, 2026 · 14 min
How to Get Backlinks: Where Our Six Sites' Strongest Links Came From
Where our six sites' strongest followed links came from, and 11 ways to get backlinks ranked by what each costs and who decides the link.
Read it →Link building · Nov 3, 2026 · 13 min
White Label Link Building: What Agencies Resell and What It Costs
Six link types agencies resell, priced from the providers' own pages, and the margin on the directory part under your brand.
Read it →SEO · Nov 2, 2026 · 15 min
LLM SEO: How to Show Up in ChatGPT and AI Search
Which AI crawlers the directories we submit to let in, what 27 AI Mode answers cited and an LLM SEO checklist.
Read it →Link building · Nov 2, 2026 · 13 min
Automated Link Building: What to Automate and What Is Spam
What link building software can automate, stage by stage, where Google's link spam line sits and what a directory still decides.
Read it →Directories · Nov 1, 2026 · 12 min
Badge-Free Directories: Where You Get Listed With No Badge
Every directory we submit to that asks for no badge on your site, by what its link is, plus the ones that still want one on the free route.
Read it →Directories · Nov 1, 2026 · 11 min
Instant Approval Directory Submission Sites, Checked
Which directories put a listing live at once, which wait for a badge check and which charge to skip the review queue.
Read it →SEO · Oct 31, 2026 · 12 min
What Is a Good Domain Rating? DR by the Numbers
No DR is good in itself. DR bands from our catalog and six of our own sites, how DR differs from Moz DA and what raises a domain rating.
Read it →Directories · Oct 31, 2026 · 12 min
High DR Directories: Dofollow Listings at DR 50 and Up
High DR directories at DR 50+ and DR 70+, with the referring domains behind each rating, the badge rule and the ones that list you free.
Read it →Backlinks · Oct 30, 2026 · 13 min
Dofollow Directories: Which Ones Pass a Followed Link
Which directories pass a followed link? Our guides counted the live listings: each result, dated, beside the DR and the badge rule.
Read it →Free listings · Oct 30, 2026 · 12 min
Free Dofollow Directories: Followed Links That Cost $0
Free dofollow directories in two tables: the ones that ask nothing and the ones that want a badge, a link back or a wait.
Read it →Directories · Oct 29, 2026 · 12 min
Directories List: Where to List a Website, by Category
Directories for AI products, SaaS, developer tools and launches, sorted by category, with DR, link type and badge rule.
Read it →Backlinks · Oct 29, 2026 · 15 min
How to Index Backlinks: Getting Directory Links Seen by Google
A directory link does nothing until Google crawls the listing that holds it. How long that takes, how to check it and what speeds it up.
Read it →Directories · Oct 28, 2026 · 13 min
Website Submission Sites: Search Engines First, Then Directories
Search engines take a sitemap, not a submission site. Then the directories that list your website with a link, strongest first.
Read it →Backlinks · Oct 28, 2026 · 13 min
Free Backlink Sites: Where Free Links Come From and What They Pass
Where free backlinks come from, what each free link is once you read its rel and what it costs in time, content or a badge.
Read it →Directories · Oct 27, 2026 · 11 min
Web Directories in 2026: What They Are and Which Still Work
What a web directory is, how it differs from a search engine and which kinds still work in 2026, strongest first.
Read it →Link building · Oct 27, 2026 · 12 min
Reciprocal Links in SEO: When a Link Back Helps and When It Hurts
A directory badge is a reciprocal link. What Google's spam policy says about it and what eight directories charge to skip the link back.
Read it →Directories · Oct 26, 2026 · 12 min
Directory Submission Sites List, With DR and Link Type
The directories in our catalog, grouped by the link a listing gives you, with DR and badge rule, then the free ones and why long lists fail.
Read it →Backlinks · Oct 26, 2026 · 17 min
Dofollow Links: What They Are, HTML Code and How to Check
There is no rel="dofollow": the HTML of every kind of link, what link juice and link equity mean and how to check any link.
Read it →Backlinks · Oct 23, 2026 · 10 min
How Many Backlinks Do You Need to Rank? Real Numbers
There is no universal number. Our six sites and 175 directories show what sets yours: the pages you must beat and the followed links you keep.
Read it →Backlinks · Oct 23, 2026 · 9 min
Directory Backlinks in 2026: Which Ones Still Count
The four tests a directory backlink has to pass, read off live listings, then the catalog directories that pass and the 24 we added in October 2026, with the 9 of early November.
Read it →Directories · Oct 18, 2026 · 7 min
The Best Startup Directories in 2026, Judged by the Link
Domain Rating is the wrong first question. Twelve directories that earn a place, sorted by what a listing gets you: a launch day, a followed link or readers.
Read it →Free listings · Oct 18, 2026 · 6 min
Free Startup Directories in 2026: What Free Costs You
Almost every directory still has a free way in, and almost none is free the way the word suggests. What each kind of free charges instead.
Read it →How to · Oct 18, 2026 · 7 min
How to Submit Your Startup to Directories, Step by Step
Thirty directories take a week, and almost none of it is typing. The kit to write once, the order to go in and the check after each listing.
Read it →Featuring · Aug 3, 2026 · 8 min
Why Product Hunt Didn't Feature Your Launch
Being posted and being featured are different things. Product Hunt publishes four criteria and a list of categories it will not feature, and most guides mention neither.
Read it →Assets · Aug 3, 2026 · 8 min
Product Hunt Launch Assets: Sizes, Video and the First Comment
Product Hunt publishes data on this: 70 percent of top products had a maker first comment, and 53 percent had a video. Here are the specs, and the craft.
Read it →Playbook · Aug 2, 2026 · 7 min
What to Do After Your Product Hunt Launch
The spike is over in days and that is normal. Here is what survives it, and why the badges you owe other directories matter more than the one you earned.
Read it →Playbook · Jul 30, 2026 · 10 min
Product Hunt Launch Timeline: Six Weeks Out, Then Hour by Hour
Most launch timelines are a to-do list with dates attached. This one starts from the two constraints that decide whether the plan is even possible.
Read it →Case study · Jul 30, 2026 · 11 min
How One Team Got Product of the Day Without Buying Upvotes
Jupid's launch ran on two things: cold emails that never mentioned upvotes, and a contact list matched against Product Hunt profiles at 90 to 95 percent accuracy. Here is the system.
Read it →Reality check · Jul 30, 2026 · 8 min
What Product Hunt Tells You vs What Actually Happens
Half the Product Hunt advice online is stale, and some of it comes from Product Hunt. Six claims, checked against what we could verify and what founders actually see.
Read it →SEO · Jul 29, 2026 · 6 min
Is a Product Hunt Link Worth Anything for SEO?
We inspected the HTML on five Product Hunt listings. Every outbound link to the product's own site was tagged ugc, not dofollow. That changes what a launch is for.
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