How to Submit to AI Tool For, Free or $49

The price card, and why it comes first here

Most of this form is unremarkable. The exception is the last control, which the screenshots circulating of this form tend to cut off: a choice between Free Listing $0 and Instant Listing $49, with the paid one pre-ticked. An untouched form therefore totals $49, and the free listing is available only if you go and select it.

Preselecting the paid option is a normal enough piece of commerce, and they do say what the free tier involves rather than hiding it. Their note reads Get listed in 6 months with nofollow link, which is their description of it and not something we have tested. We are flagging it only because a form you fill in on autopilot ends at a checkout for $49, and plenty of people will have meant to take the free route.

A related structural note. The thing on the page is not the site's own form but a third-party widget embedded into it, and pressing its button takes you off aitoolfor.org to an external checkout that asks for a full name and an email. On the $0 tier that step is a single button with no card details involved. Worth knowing so that leaving the domain does not look like something has gone wrong.

What is required, and what the fields become

Seven things are required plus the price choice: your email, the Title, the AI Tool URL, the short description, the full description, a category from a fixed list of twelve, and a logo. The form does not tell you this in any way you can see, because no field carries a required attribute and the asterisks that would mark them are hidden by the stylesheet. Optional are the Twitter handle, the X/Twitter URL and the Pricing dropdown.

Two fields deserve more thought than the rest. The Title is reused three times over: it is the heading on your listing, it is the page's title tag, and it becomes the slug in the URL. Give it your product name rather than a descriptive phrase, because a sentence produces a clumsy address you cannot change later.

And the two description boxes are genuinely different jobs, which the identical placeholder text disguises. The short one is what appears on the card in the grid, and the published ones sit around 90 characters. The full one becomes the body of your listing page, where they run to roughly 580. Pasting the same text into both leaves the page looking thin.

The logo is an upload rather than a link, accepts jpg, png or svg, and takes one file. Neither webp nor gif is accepted, which is worth knowing before you export anything.

What the listing gives you

Each tool gets a page of its own, and the pages are indexable. The link out to your site is clean: no redirector, no shortener, no tracking parameters bolted onto the end. And the entries stay put, with all 20 listings we traced across 16 to 23 months unchanged, including their rel attribute.

The link type follows the tier, and the split shows in the markup. Of 106 listing pages we read, 71 carried rel="nofollow" on the outbound link and 35 did not. The paid tier is the one whose links carry no nofollow. We put it that way round on purpose: what you find on the others is a rel="dofollow", and that token is not an instruction search engines act on, so the meaningful difference is the absence of nofollow rather than the presence of anything.

On timing, the site says nothing beyond its own six-month note on the free tier, and nothing anywhere states whether a given submission is published. Note the date you sent it and check back.

The $49 question, put next to ours

We should declare the obvious interest before making this comparison: we sell a competing service, and our middle tier happens to cost the same $49. That is also exactly why the comparison is worth doing, because at an identical price the difference is unusually easy to state.

Their $49 buys one listing on one site, and that site is rated 18. Our $49 buys sixty directories, which works out at about 82 cents each. Same money, one door against sixty, and the sixty are separate domains rather than sixty anchors in one place.

Being straight about what that does not mean, since the easy version of this argument is the dishonest one. We are not claiming sixty stronger sites: the catalogue we publish runs from DR 11 to DR 93, four of the entries in it sit below 20, and some of our doors are the same weight as this one. The claim is about count and choice, not about every door being better. You pick which ones you spend the slots on, with each rating shown next to the name while you choose.

Which leaves a reasonable way to use both. Take the free listing here, since it costs nothing but a form, and put the $49 somewhere it buys more than a single entry. If you specifically want this domain without the six-month wait and without the nofollow, their paid tier is the only thing that does that, and no amount of breadth elsewhere substitutes for it.

Worth doing?

On the free tier, yes, provided you go in knowing it is the slower lane and that the link comes nofollowed. Your tool lands on its own indexable page, the outbound link is clean rather than wrapped in anything, and the entries survive: nothing we traced across nearly two years had been touched.

The one thing we would insist on is that the choice should be a choice. Look at the price card before you press the button, and if you do reach for the $49, reach for it deliberately rather than because the form had already reached for it.