How to Submit to 1000AI.best, and Who Else Is on Your Page

They sell a followed link and they hand one over

No hedging needed here. We fetched all 117 live listings and read the markup the server actually sends. The anchors aimed at the listed product carry rel="noopener" 232 times, with 31 instances of rel="noopener noreferrer" on the optional x.com links, and neither attribute has any effect on whether authority passes. Across all 117 files nofollow appears zero times and sponsored appears zero times. Four strings look like ugc at first glance and every one turned out to be a fragment of base64 image data, so that count is zero too.

The rest of the technical picture holds up as well. The hrefs are direct, with no redirect hop in between. The pages are actually indexed rather than merely indexable. Googlebot and an ordinary browser got matching pages on the four URLs we compared, and the investigator ran two same-agent fetches first to establish a baseline of zero drift, which is what makes that comparison mean anything. Archived copies show the same arrangement back to December 2025, so this is not a recent change of heart.

Two anchors out of about eighty-seven

Here is the thing the card doesn't price in. Every listing page carries an identical block of outbound links underneath the product it is nominally about. We counted them on all 117 pages and the shape barely moves: a minimum of 85, a median of 85 and a maximum of 87 followed anchors, going out to 25 separate domains, all marked rel="noopener noreferrer" and none of them nofollow. The destinations are the sort of thing you would expect from a badge exchange, including a site called dofollow.tools, another called yo.directory, and a turbo0.com page about 1000AI itself.

None of that makes the link you buy fake. It is real and it is followed. It does mean the page it sits on is not primarily about your product, and if the reason you are paying is the authority the page passes along, the arithmetic of sharing it with eighty-five siblings is worth doing before rather than after.

The catalog is 117, and they say so

Credit where it belongs, because this one cuts their way. The hero calls the site A curated collection of the 1000 best AI Native products, which is a large number to put in a name. But the data their own homepage serves reports a total of 117, and that is exactly the number we independently arrived at by fetching every URL in their sitemap and sorting them by what came back. They are not inflating their size. They are simply named after a number they are about 12% of.

The sitemap is the messy part. It holds 508 URLs, and 391 of them return a page titled Project Not Found, served with HTTP 200 rather than an error, though each does carry a noindex tag so the junk stays out of the index. Their own copy explains what those are: It might be a project that was abandoned during the payment process, you can continue to complete your payment in your dashboard. New ones are still being minted, the freshest carrying a timestamp from the morning we looked.

A template with the packaging still on

Three details in a row, and they matter because they sit on pages that take money. The /sponsors page sells placements up to $199 and headlines Support DirEasy and gain visibility. on a site branded 1000 AI. The FAQ on that same page tells a paying sponsor that you can directly email us at contact@example.com. And the Help Center link in the footer leads to a page that loads fine and turns out to be an unconfigured documentation demo, headed About Fuma Docs.

The DR Booster card carries the loudest version of it. What the server sends reads $50 with $0 struck through, a crossed-out price beneath the one being charged. Their own bundle explains it: the $50 never varies, but the crossed number is worked out live as nine dollars for each site in a network list that has nothing in it yet when the page is assembled. The ten in 10 dofollow backlinks is not computed from that list at all, it is simply a hardcoded ten, and where the card would show an average DR for the network it substitutes a plain 40. Their /boost page sells the identical thing without that anchor, at two published per-link prices, $6 and $5, with nothing struck beside either one in what it served us.

Whose sites the booster links from

They answer this themselves on /boost, under the heading Why submit to your own directories instead of other well-known ones?: These directories are all operated by us — with real users and genuinely user-submitted products (no scraping). It is disclosed rather than hidden, and the same FAQ tells buyers that going to other directories as well is fine and won't conflict. What is missing is the list. The panel headed Our Network: names no site, and the complete list of directory sites behind the More Info button names none in anything the server sends.

We can at least describe what stands next to it. This site, 1000Tools.best and LinkSalad all answer at one origin address that isn't behind a proxy, and what comes back is the same compiled application three times over, matching hash for hash. We set that evidence out in full on the 1000Tools guide; the short of it is that these are three doors into one running program, and the boilerplate they run on is sold to be self-hosted, so nobody is renting them a slot. Our own Ahrefs-backed lookup puts the three at 15, 18 and 19. Are any of them among the sites the booster links from? Unanswerable: those sites are named nowhere the server sends, so the card's DR 20-60 floor cannot be checked against anything at all, these three included.

Numbers that disagree with each other

The booster card promises Reach real users. Tens of thousands of unique visitors every month, with no qualifier attached. Their own /sponsors page reports 2,679 unique visitors over the last 30 days. Publishing any figure at all is more than most directories do, and 2,679 is not a number chosen to impress anyone. The trouble is which of the two sits beside the price.

A smaller one in the same spirit: their FAQ says they launch up to 5 free, 10 premium and 3 premium plus projects a day. That is 18, while the daily ceiling configured in the site's own settings is 15. And the date stamped on top of their legal pages is manufactured as the page loads rather than recorded when anything changed, so it will read as today whenever you visit. That one you can falsify yourself: open it tomorrow and watch it move.

Is $9.9 on 1000AI.best a good buy?

On the narrow question of whether you get what the card promises, yes. The link is followed, the page is indexed, the href is clean, nothing different is served to crawlers, and the listing is a genuine write-up, the pages we sampled running from 828 to 2,178 words, rather than a name and a URL. They publish a traffic figure at all, self-reported and unverifiable but published, they report their catalog size honestly, they mark their dead URLs noindex, and they tell you outright that the booster's directories are their own. At $9.9 that is a fair small purchase from a DR 15 site.

The reservations are about proportion rather than honesty. Your two anchors share the page with about eighty-five others. Neither launch tier has a refund statement anywhere on the site. The $50 card is marked down from zero, the sponsor page asks you to email an example address, and the documentation link opens somebody else's demo. And per listing it costs roughly ten times what a door costs here, which is the reason this guide exists.