How to Submit to SeekTool (DR 50)

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), the FAQ quotes review times for two of them, and the page's schema markup offers a $39 plan with "instant listing" that matches nothing visible. Stripe, USD and genuinely one-time, to their credit.

The dofollow is real, and everyone gets it

The $19.90 card's flagship bullet is "The outbound link to your tool page is dofollow", and it's true: on all 12 live listings we checked, the Visit Site link carried no rel attribute, served straight from the HTML, with ?utm_source=seektool.ai appended to the destination. Here's the context the card omits: every one of those 12 listings is an auto-imported tool that never paid, and they carry the identical followed link. Dofollow at SeekTool is the house default, not a paid perk; the free reciprocal-backlink path lands the same link type. What the $19.90 actually buys over free is speed (48 hours instead of 1 to 3 business days) and skipping the link-to-them-from-your-homepage toll. One calibration for the SEO pitch: the page advertises "Get DR 60+ Backlinks"; FrogDR tracks seektool.ai at DR 50.

"Refundable if not used", void once it works

Three surfaces promise a refund: the card bullet ("Refundable if not used"), the badge under the cards ("7-Day Money Back Guarantee") and the FAQ (refunds within 7 days for published tools). The refund policy grants it only while your product is "not included in our directory after paid submission", a sponsorship "has not yet taken effect" or a deadline was missed, and denies it "After your tool has been successfully published and is live on our platform". Put the pieces together: the $19.90 tier publishes within 48 hours, and publication is the event that voids the refund. "Not used" means "not yet delivered", a warranty that expires when the product works. The policy's date is its own footnote: "Last Updated: November 16, 2024"; the domain was registered January 1, 2025.

"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" on a directory that generates no images. 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 is dead at our July 2026 check. 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 doesn't even make the promise; their own API marks it 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 runs Google-served ads that render as link pills inside SeekTool's own plan cards; the "AI tool subscriptions" pill visible in our screenshot of the bundle card is one of them, 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: the week we looked, the homepage's Trending list had an "Undress AI" tool at #2, its top entries had won with "+1 votes" and the counter of the day's new tools read zero. 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-50 directory, with a link type the free imports already carry and a refund that ends at publication. 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, Fazier at DR 81 and Turbo0 at DR 79), the whole batch out in 24 to 48 hours with a live link per completed listing, rejections credited +1 and a 30-day money-back refund that doesn't void when delivery succeeds. 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.