How to Submit to SeekTool (DR 53)

SeekTool pricing: one door for $19.90, thirty for $29

$19.90 is a small sticker, about $9 under our cheapest plan, so the honest comparison is per door. Their $19.90 opens one door on one directory. Submitator's $29 opens thirty, about $0.97 each, which makes SeekTool's per-door price roughly twenty times ours. The anchors deserve a look too: the $26.90 strikethrough has appeared in every archived copy of the pricing page since December 9, 2025, on plans their database says were created November 16, 2025, and the bundle's $60.00 anchor is within thirty cents of their own three components added together. The page's code still carries plans you can't buy ("Unlimited Submit AI", a $109 ad tier) and the FAQ quotes review times for two of them. The rest of the menu is add-ons: an AI Product Update at $9.90 (struck from $19.90), a homepage sponsor spot at $9.90 for 30 days, a sidebar spot at $29.90 for 30 days and a guest post at $29.90. Stripe, USD and genuinely one-time, to their credit.

The dofollow is real, and now it is what you pay for

The $19.90 card's flagship bullet is "The outbound link to your tool page is dofollow", and on paid listings it holds. Listing pages carry a paid flag in their page data, and the rel follows it. On the 24 newest listings flagged paid, the Visit Site button and the screenshot link carry no rel attribute, served straight from the HTML, with ?utm_source=seektool.ai appended to the destination. On all 10 listings flagged unpaid, both links carry rel="nofollow", and that is new: two of those unpaid listings show a plain followed link in archived copies from January and March 2026. So SeekTool has already changed the rel on listings that existed, and the followed link now goes with the paid flag. One calibration for the SEO pitch: the page advertises "Get DR 60+ Backlinks"; Ahrefs rates seektool.ai DR 53.

The refund: the FAQ says yes, the policy says no

The pricing page used to promise a refund twice: a "Refundable if not used" bullet on the $19.90 card and a "7-Day Money Back Guarantee" line under the cards. Both were there in July 2026; both are gone. What remains contradicts itself. The pricing FAQ says "For published tools, refunds are available within 7 days if you're not satisfied." The refund policy grants refunds only while your product is "not included in our directory after paid submission", a sponsorship "has not yet taken effect" or the promised review time was missed, and lists "After your tool has been successfully published and is live on our platform" as non-refundable. On the clock they agree: 7 days, which the policy counts from purchase. The policy's date is its own footnote: "Last Updated: November 16, 2024"; the domain was registered January 1, 2025. Their window to ask is 7 days; ours is 30 days from purchase.

"Permanently", and a short observable history

"The link to your tool exists permanently" is the $19.90 card's durability promise. Nobody is named behind it: no person, no company, no address, and the Terms of Service are a leftover template from a different product, discussing image generation and stating "Tap4.ai claims no ownership over images created by users". The observable history: the Hacker News account that announced seektool.ai in February 2025 had announced another directory, huntai.ai, weeks earlier, and a boilerplate sentence from that project still sits on SeekTool's homepage; huntai.ai stopped responding in 2025 and still does not load. We'll state it precisely and let you weigh it: the promise is "permanent", the paperwork belongs to another product and the earlier directory from the same account didn't outlive 2025. The bundle's card promises a "DoFollow Backlink valid for permanently", while their own API marks the same plan not permanent, with a 30-day duration.

Ads on the page you paid for

Two placement details worth knowing before buying visibility here. First, the pricing page itself carries a Google ad unit, and in July it rendered as a link pill inside SeekTool's own bundle card: the "AI tool subscriptions" pill in the screenshot above is an injected ad, not a feature. Second, the page's ad configuration includes a slot named tool_detail_competitor: ad space sold on tool detail pages, meaning your listing page can carry a paid spot for somebody else. Add the neighborhood check: in mid-October the homepage's Trending This Week list was led on "+3 votes", the next two entries had "+1 votes" each and the #3 spot belonged to a tool billed as "AI Clothing Removal". The directory is big and real. The attention it sells is thinner than the size suggests.

One door or thirty, nine dollars apart

The math this guide exists for: $19.90 at SeekTool buys one listing on one DR-53 directory, with 7 days to ask for a refund that its own FAQ and policy disagree on. Submitator's $29, about nine dollars more, buys submissions to 30 directories you pick in the dashboard, each with its DR on screen (the catalog runs up to DR 93), dofollow links as the stated focus (DR 40 to 90 directories), badges installed and kept live (that's what unlocks Startup Fame at DR 83, Twelve Tools at DR 81 and Turbo0 at DR 80), most directories out within 24 to 48 hours and every directory within 21 days at most, a live link per completed listing, rejections credited +1 and a 30-day refund window. Their $39.90 bundle is renting 30 days of banner space on one site; our $49 plan is 60 listings on other people's sites. Doors, not banners.