No Link Equity, Three Ways. And They Never Said There Would Be.
Written by Submitator. FastPedia is one of the directories we file customers to, and this page tells you the unflattering measurement first because the flattering conclusion depends on it. Everything below is read off their live pages and the method is in the footnote.
Start with the measurement, because most people arrive at a directory guide asking one question. We sampled 80 of the 1,745 tool pages on fastpedia.io. Every one of them sends the link to your site through a /go/ redirector rather than to your domain. Every one carries rel="sponsored nofollow". And /go/ is Disallowed in their own robots.txt.
Not one of the eighty had a direct external link of any kind. So there is no link equity here, blocked three separate ways, and it is not an oversight on a few pages. It is how the site is built.
We searched their public pages for the words backlink, dofollow and any SEO promise. There are none. FastPedia does not sell a link, has never claimed to, and is not pretending. Read their robots.txt instead and the actual product is obvious: this is built to be read by AI assistants, not by Googlebot.
FastPedia at a glance
| What you get | FastPedia |
|---|---|
| Price | $0, no paid tier offered |
| The link | sponsored nofollow, via a disallowed redirector |
| Link equity | None, on 80 of 80 sampled |
| Do they claim a backlink? | No, nowhere on the site |
| AI crawlers | Eleven welcomed by name in robots.txt |
| SEO crawlers | AhrefsBot and SemrushBot blocked |
| Machine-readable inventory | llms.txt plus a full tool list |
| Size | 1,745 tools, 1,186 MCP servers, 326 CLI agents |
| Filed for you by Submitator | Free listing, nofollow marked on the card, plus 29 more from $29 |
Per fastpedia.io, its robots.txt, its llms.txt, its sitemaps and its submission form, all read on 9 September 2026. Domain Rating is Ahrefs' figure via submitator.com/domain-rating-checker, which returned 16; note that fastpedia.io disallows AhrefsBot in robots.txt, so that figure is derived without Ahrefs crawling the site itself. Sitemap counts on the day: 1,745 tool pages, 1,186 MCP server pages, 326 CLI agent pages, 58 categories and 3 industries; their own llms.txt states 2,071 tools across 57 categories, which we did not reconcile. The link finding is a sample, not a census: a seeded random sample of 80 tool URLs, every one fetched successfully at 7-14 KB, parsed rather than pattern-matched. All 80 route the outbound link through an internal /go/ path carrying rel="sponsored nofollow", none of the 80 contains a direct anchor to any external domain, and none carries a robots noindex. Their robots.txt disallows /go/ and /mcp/go/, so the redirector is not crawlable, and separately disallows AhrefsBot, SemrushBot, DotBot and MJ12bot while explicitly allowing GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, anthropic-ai, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, Amazonbot and CCBot. We searched their home page, tools index, llms.txt and the pages we fetched for the terms backlink, dofollow, do-follow and common SEO-benefit phrasings and found no occurrence, so no claim of a backlink is made by them anywhere we looked; we did not see the logged-in submission confirmation screens. Form fields and their required flags are read from the live submission form, which sits behind an account. Nothing behind that form was observed: no submission was made, so review time, acceptance rate and editorial practice are outside what we can report. Submitator files customers to FastPedia and marks it nofollow in the dashboard. Our plans are $29 for 30 directories, $49 for 60 and $79 for 100, one-time, chosen by you with each Domain Rating shown and nofollow marked where it applies, rejections credited back as +1 directory and a 30-day refund policy on the conditions in our terms.
How to submit to FastPedia, step by step
- 1
Create the account first, because the form needs one
The submission form sits behind a login and fills your name and email from your profile, noting that the email is what they use for submission updates. There is no guest route, so make the account before you have your copy ready rather than after.
- 2
Write the description for a machine, not a shopper
It is required and it wants 100 to 2,000 characters, which is far longer than most directories ask. On a site engineered to be read by answer engines, that field is the listing. Say what the tool does, who it is for, what it integrates with and what makes it different, in plain declarative sentences an assistant can lift verbatim.
- 3
Pick the primary category carefully, then add up to two more
Three categories maximum including the primary one, chosen from 58. Their taxonomy is more specific than most, running from Code Assistants and Copywriting through to Avatar and Dating, so there is usually a precise answer available and no reason to settle for a vague one.
- 4
Use all ten tags, and make them the words people say
Comma-separated, maximum ten. On a site whose whole purpose is being retrievable, tags are cheap surface area. Their own placeholder shows the register they want: ai, machine-learning, nlp. Use the phrases someone would actually type or ask, not marketing adjectives.
- 5
Fill the optional block anyway
Logo and profile image URLs, a contact name and email, and Twitter, LinkedIn and GitHub links. None is required and all of it is structure an assistant can use to describe you accurately. The GitHub field in particular is worth filling if you have a public repo, given they run separate indexes for MCP servers and CLI agents.
- 6
Be honest in the rating box, or leave it empty
There is a field asking what rating you would give the tool, from 0 to 5. It is optional and it is your own score of your own product, which limits what anyone can read into a 5. Leaving it blank costs nothing.
- 7
Use the notes box to talk to a person
The last field says it is for any additional information for their review team, and the button says Submit Tool for Review, so a human is in the loop. If your product is hard to categorise or the site does not explain itself in ten seconds, this is where you head that off.
Read their robots.txt and the product explains itself
Most directories have a robots.txt that says nothing. This one is a position statement. It welcomes, by name, GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, anthropic-ai, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, Amazonbot and CCBot. Eleven crawlers, each given an explicit Allow.
Then it blocks AhrefsBot, SemrushBot, DotBot and MJ12bot outright. And it points at an llms.txt, which turns out to carry a link to a full machine-readable inventory of every tool on the site.
Put those together and there is no contradiction to explain. A site that wanted to sell backlinks would not block the two crawlers that measure them. A site that wants to be the source an assistant quotes when someone asks for a tool would do exactly this, and would also nofollow its outbound links so that being a directory does not turn into being a link farm.
One consequence worth knowing
Because AhrefsBot and SemrushBot are blocked, a FastPedia listing will not show up in your Ahrefs or Semrush backlink report. There is no equity to report anyway, so nothing is lost, but it is worth knowing in advance rather than spending an evening wondering why a listing you can see is not in your tool.
The same block is why the DR 16 next to their name deserves an asterisk. Ahrefs is rating a domain it is not allowed to crawl. On this particular site the number matters less than anywhere else in the catalog, because no equity is moving in either direction.
The MCP and CLI agent indexes
The most specific thing about FastPedia is not the tools list, it is the two alongside it: 1,186 MCP servers and 326 CLI coding agents, each with its own sitemap and its own section. Very few directories index either.
If what you built is an MCP server or a terminal agent, that is a small, specific index with your category of thing in it, on a site actively feeding the assistants your users are asking. That is a better reason to spend ten minutes here than any Domain Rating would have been.
Where this sits in a catalog
We file customers here and we mark it nofollow on the card, which is the same thing we do for every directory whose link does not pass equity. You should know which listings are working on your link profile and which are working on something else, and a Domain Rating printed on its own next to a nofollowed link tells you the wrong story.
Being listed where AI assistants read is worth having, and it is a different job from a backlink. Both are on the same page in your dashboard, labelled, and you choose the mix.
$0 here, and nofollow. $29 for thirty, with the rel checked on every one.
One payment, every directory named in your dashboard with its Domain Rating on the card and nofollow marked where it applies, so you can tell a link from a listing before you pick it.
FastPedia review: the short answer
Submit, and file it under AI visibility. It costs nothing, the form is one screen once you have an account, the description field is generous enough to say something real, and the site is genuinely engineered for the crawlers that feed assistants.
Do not file it under backlinks. Every link is sponsored, nofollowed and routed through a path their own robots.txt blocks. They never said otherwise, which is more than can be said for several directories that promise a dofollow and hand you exactly this.
An AI listing, not a backlink.
All 80 FastPedia listings we sampled route through a /go/ redirector with rel sponsored nofollow, and /go/ is disallowed in robots. No equity, three ways, and they never claimed any. What they did build is a robots.txt welcoming eleven AI crawlers by name, an llms.txt with a full inventory, and separate indexes for 1,186 MCP servers and 326 CLI agents. The whole catalog.
FAQ
Is a FastPedia listing dofollow?
No, and it is not close. We sampled 80 of the 1,745 tool pages in their sitemap. All 80 send the outbound link through a /go/ redirector rather than to your domain, all 80 carry rel="sponsored nofollow", and /go/ is disallowed in their own robots.txt. Not one of the 80 had a direct external link of any kind. That is no link equity by three separate mechanisms.
Is FastPedia hiding that?
No. We searched their public pages for the words backlink, dofollow and any SEO promise and found none. They do not sell a link and they never say they do, which puts them ahead of several directories that say it and do not deliver it.
So what is FastPedia for?
Being read by AI assistants. Their robots.txt explicitly welcomes GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, anthropic-ai, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, Amazonbot and CCBot, and they publish an llms.txt with a link to a full machine-readable inventory. The listing is built to be quoted by an answer engine, not to pass PageRank.
Does FastPedia block SEO crawlers?
Yes, deliberately. Their robots.txt disallows AhrefsBot, SemrushBot, DotBot and MJ12bot outright. One practical consequence: even the nofollowed listing will not appear in your Ahrefs or Semrush backlink reports, so do not go looking for it there.
What does the FastPedia submission form ask for?
You need an account, and it fills your name and email from your profile. Then the tool name, the website URL and a description of 100 to 2,000 characters, all required. Then a primary category and a pricing model, up to two more categories, and up to ten comma-separated tags. Everything after that is optional: logo and profile image URLs, a contact name and email, Twitter, LinkedIn and GitHub URLs, a self-assigned rating from 0 to 5 and a notes box for their review team.
What is FastPedia's Domain Rating?
16 on Ahrefs. Given that they block AhrefsBot from crawling them at all, treat that number as approximate. It also matters less here than on any other directory in the catalog, because no equity is being passed either way.
How big is FastPedia?
Their sitemaps hold 1,745 tool pages, 1,186 MCP servers, 326 CLI coding agents and 58 categories; their own llms.txt says 2,071 tools across 57 categories. The MCP and CLI agent indexes are unusual and are the most specific thing about the site.
Is FastPedia worth submitting to?
If you want AI assistants to be able to find and describe your tool, yes, and it costs nothing. If you are counting backlinks, no, and nothing on their site suggests you should. Submitator lists it in the catalog with nofollow printed on the card so you can decide which of those you are buying before you pick it.
More submit-to guides.
FastPedia is free and nofollow. Thirty directories are $29, labelled.
One payment, each directory named with its Domain Rating on the card before you choose it, nofollow marked where it applies, badges installed and kept live where one is wanted, and a rejection swapped for another directory.