AI Trendz's Two Success Stories Are, By Its Own Footer, Its Own Websites

The gains are real, and they are in-house

Start with the credit, because it matters. The four screenshots are Ahrefs panels and the movement in them is genuine. skysnail.io goes from Domain Rating 14 to 29, with linking websites rising from 9 to 84. viralsky.ai goes from 18 to 29, linking websites 6 to 41. We checked both domains against Ahrefs ourselves: skysnail.io is rated 30 today and viralsky.ai 27, which is what you would expect a few months after those panels were taken. Nobody invented these numbers.

What the panels do not say, and what the footer does, is whose sites they are. "We Also Built" lists five properties and two of them are the two case studies. Both are also listings inside their own directory, at /link-detail/skysnail/ and /link-detail/viralsky/, and both of those listings carry the same nofollow Visit button as everybody else's.

None of that makes the service ineffective. It makes the evidence a different thing from what it looks like. A directory-submission campaign run by the seller, on the seller's own domain, with the seller choosing which two results to screenshot, is a demonstration. A customer result is a demonstration plus a customer. The page shows the first and reads like the second.

Thirty euros for five business days

The two listing tiers are 29,99 € and 59,99 €, and we counted their bullets in the raw markup rather than reading them off the screen. "Listed in AI Trendz tool directory" appears twice. "Detailed description, URL and website screenshot" twice. "Indexed on major search engines" twice. And "Listed as a featured AI tool for 30 days", the line the second tier is named after, also twice, which is to say it is printed on the cheaper card too.

One line occurs once each: "Published within 7 business days" under Basic, "Published within 2 business days" under Featured. That is the whole difference. Thirty euros, five business days. It is an honest thing to sell and an easy thing to miss, because the cards are laid out to look like a ladder rather than a queue jump.

A backlinks page whose links are nofollow

We took 500 listings at random from their 3,987 and fetched every one without a single error. 498 carry a "Visit Website" button, and every one of those 498 carries rel="nofollow". Every one of them also ends in ?via=aitrendz. Here is a real one, whole:

"<a href="https://10web.io/?via=aitrendz" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="single_add_to_cart_button button alt ait-button">Visit Website</a>"

Now the fair part. They never promise a followed link. The word dofollow does not appear on the submission page once. What appears instead is "The Old Way (Without Backlinks)", "The New Way (With Backlinks)", a high-authority domain that search engines trust and an SEO foundation that pays dividends for years. The claim is never made and the atmosphere is never anything else.

The 299,00 € tier is our product, unnamed

"Everything included in featured listing + we add your website to more than 110 directories with guaranteed increase in traffic and domain authority", with "Guaranteed DR increase in just 60 days" on the bullet list. That is a directory-submission service, which is what we sell, at 299,00 € against $79 here for a hundred.

Two things about it. The first is that not one of the hundred and ten is named: Product Hunt, BetaList, G2, Capterra, AlternativeTo, Futurepedia, Crunchbase, F6S and SourceForge all return no match on the page. The second is the word guaranteed, used twice, about Domain Rating and about traffic. Both are Ahrefs and Google outputs. A submission service controls what it submits, and nothing after that.

What you cannot read before paying

There is no terms of service. /terms/ returns 404, so does /refund-policy/, and the footer's Legal menu offers a Privacy Policy and a Cookie Policy and nothing else. The refund rule lives in an FAQ answer: "We guarantee an immediate full refund in case your listing doesn't get approved for any reason. We don't provide refunds in other cases."

That is a clear rule and probably an honestly meant one. It is also the only one, for a transaction that runs to 299,00 € and comes with an EU tax invoice. The free tier is gone as well, withdrawn in their own words because "careful review and management of our directory requires substantial work and time resources", which is a reasonable thing to say and leaves 29,99 € as the cheapest door.

AI Trendz review: which tier, if any?

The 29,99 € is a small, real purchase: a page on a DR 33 directory with 3,987 tools on it, live in seven business days, kept up afterwards. If you want that placement, buy it and take Basic, because the extra thirty euros buys five days and the featured line is on both cards anyway.

The 299,00 € is the one we would not buy, and not only because it is our category. It is nearly four times what a hundred directories cost here, the hundred and ten are named nowhere, and the word guaranteed is doing work no submission service can do. Ask for the list first. If it comes back and it is good, you will have learned something either way.

And since this page has been about what a buyer can check: nine directories in that hundred sell a paid tier of their own, and we print each one by name with its price on the savings page, over $140 the plan absorbs instead of your card. That list is on screen before you buy, which is the whole argument.