Their Card Promises a Nofollow Link. All Twenty-Four We Measured Are Followed.
Written by Submitator. Spiff.store is one of the directories we file customers to, so read it as an interested party. The link result was measured in a real browser because the served markup does not contain it, and the footnote says exactly how.
Spiff.store is a free AI-tools directory rated 15 by Ahrefs, with 531 listing pages across 45 categories. The submission is a Google Form, and the free route carries a wait they state plainly and twice: two months.
Their submit page prices two tiers, and it describes each one in terms of the link it gives you. The free tier's bullet is "1 no-follow backlink". The $15 Fastlane tier's is "100+ do-follow backlinks".
We rendered 24 listing pages, spaced evenly across all 531. Every one carries a Visit Website anchor with rel="noopener noreferrer" pointing at the tool's own domain. Twenty-four of twenty-four, followed.
In twenty-five of these guides this is the first directory whose listings came back better than its own sales page claims.
| Tier | Price | Wait | The link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free Listing | $0 | 2 months | "1 no-follow backlink" |
| Fastlane Listing | $15 once | 2 days | "100+ do-follow backlinks" |
We cannot see which listings paid for Fastlane and which did not, so we are not claiming their card is wrong. What we can say is that a sample of 24 spaced evenly across 531 pages, all coming back followed, does not fit a world where only paying listings get a followed link. Plan on the promise, which is a nofollow link in two months, and take the measurement as what is on the page today.
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| Listings rendered | 24, spaced evenly across their 531 |
| Visit Website anchor present | 24 of 24 |
| rel on it | noopener noreferrer on 24 of 24, so followed |
| Points at the tool's own domain | 24 of 24, with ?ref=spiff.store |
| Self-referencing canonical | 24 of 24 |
| Hosts on every page | 9, the sister-site block |
Spiff.store at a glance
| What you get | Spiff.store |
|---|---|
| Price to list | $0, or $15 to skip the wait |
| Free tier wait | 2 months, stated twice |
| Promised link, free tier | "1 no-follow backlink" |
| Measured link | Followed on 24 of 24 |
| Domain Rating | 15 (Ahrefs); they advertise DA 30+ (Moz) |
| The form | Google Form; you write the SEO title and meta |
| Banner image | Supplied as a URL, not an upload |
| Catalogue | 531 listings, 45 categories |
| Badge | Optional, at /badge-generator/ |
| Filed for you by Submitator | Free route, plus 29 more directories from $29 |
Per spiff.store, its /submit-tool page, robots.txt, sitemaps and the linked Google Form, all read on 23 September 2026. Domain Rating is Ahrefs' figure via submitator.com/domain-rating-checker, which returned 15; their submit page advertises "DA 30+", which is Moz's Domain Authority, a different metric from a different vendor, and the two are not interchangeable, so no contradiction is alleged. Their robots.txt is "User-agent: * / Allow: /" with a sitemap line pointing at https://spiff.store/sitemap.xml, which returns 404; the working index is at /sitemap-index.xml and the child at /sitemap-0.xml, which holds 610 URLs of which 531 are under /tools/ and 45 under /categories/. The link finding required a browser. The served markup of a listing page contains 18 external anchors and none of them points at the listed tool; two independent extraction methods agreed on that before a browser was used, following an earlier case this week where a single pattern under-reported links. Rendered, the same page carries 703 anchors including an anchor whose visible text is Visit Website. Twenty-four listing pages were then rendered, selected at a fixed stride across the full sitemap order so the sample spans the whole catalogue rather than one end of it; all 24 carry that anchor, all 24 carry rel="noopener noreferrer" with no nofollow, sponsored or ugc, all 24 point at the tool's own domain with a ?ref=spiff.store parameter, and all 24 carry a self-referencing canonical. Nine external hosts appear on every page sampled and were identified as furniture by frequency before attribution: rref-calculator.com, index-now.org, mp4wav.com, aivideo.to, worldclass.domains, anime-pfp.com, hebegs.com, backlinksforsale.com and formatfile.com. We cannot determine which listings were submitted free and which through the paid tier, so no claim is made that their pricing card is inaccurate; the observation is only that an evenly spaced sample of 24 came back followed while the free tier's bullet reads "1 no-follow backlink". Tier names, prices, waits and every quoted sentence are taken from /submit-tool and the Google Form: "Free Listing $0", "No payment required", "2 months waiting time", "Dedicated Listing Page", "1 no-follow backlink", "Fastlane Listing $15", "Pay once", "2 days waiting time", "100+ do-follow backlinks", "Listed on 10+ sister sites", and from the form "The waiting time for free listings is 2 months" and "What tools are not allowed? Any website that displays sexual or violent content." Their claims of 300+ tools listed and 10k+ monthly traffic are their own and were not verified, and nothing on the paid tier was purchased or measured, so the 100+ backlinks and sister-site figures are quoted rather than checked. Nothing was submitted, so review behaviour and acceptance rate are outside what we can report; they state two months free and two business days paid, while Submitator's terms state an aim of 2 to 3 days and a committed ETA of 30 days from purchase, so this page makes no speed comparison in either direction. 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 no-equity marked where it applies, badges installed and kept live, rejections credited back as +1 directory and a 30-day refund policy on the conditions in our terms.
How to submit to Spiff.store, step by step
- 1
Write the SEO title for their page, not yours
This is the field that makes this submission different from every other one in the catalog. You are writing the title tag of a page on somebody else's domain, and that page competes for queries about your product. Something like "YourTool Review: Pricing, Features and Alternatives" earns its place in a directory; pasting your home page title puts a second, weaker copy of your own headline into the index.
- 2
Write the meta description as a description of the page
Same logic, one level down. The meta description should say what somebody will find on that listing page, which is a description, a feature list and a link, rather than repeating the tagline you already use everywhere. One sentence, under about 150 characters, written for somebody deciding whether to click a search result.
- 3
Host the banner image before you start
The banner field wants a URL, not an upload, so there is nowhere to drag a file. Put the image somewhere stable and public first, ideally on your own domain rather than a temporary host, because a dead image URL on a listing page is worse than no banner at all and you will not be the one who notices.
- 4
Decide about the two months before you decide about the $15
Free is stated as two months and Fastlane at $15 as two business days. That is the entire difference in timing, and it is an honest trade rather than a queue-jumping tax. If the listing is part of a launch with a date attached, $15 is cheap; if it is one of thirty directories being filed as a batch, two months costs you nothing you were counting on.
- 5
Fill the optional fields if they apply to you
The form has two optional fields: a video demo URL and an affiliate program URL. The demo is free surface area on a page that otherwise has only text and a banner. The affiliate field is how a directory with no listing fee pays for itself, and declining it costs you nothing.
- 6
Open your listing when it lands and check the button
The Visit Website anchor is built in the browser rather than served in the markup, so a view-source will not show it to you. Open the page properly, click through, and confirm it lands on your canonical domain with the ref parameter and nothing else.
The only form here that asks for your meta tags
Twenty-five directories into this catalog, this is the first one whose form asks for an SEO title and a meta description, both marked required. Every other directory writes those itself, or scrapes them from your homepage, or does not bother.
It is a genuine gift and it comes with a genuine responsibility, because almost nobody will use it properly. The instinct is to paste your own homepage title in, and that is the one thing worth not doing: you would be publishing a second, weaker copy of your own headline onto a domain you do not control, competing with the page you actually want people to land on.
Write it as what it is. The page is a directory entry about your product, so the title should read like one, and the description should describe the page rather than the product. Five minutes of thought here is worth more than everything else on the form combined, and it is free.
Two months, or fifteen dollars
Their free tier states a two month wait, on the submission form and again in their FAQ. Fastlane at $15 states two business days. No queue-jumping language, no artificial scarcity, no countdown: a number and a price.
We would rather see that than the alternative. Plenty of directories in this catalog advertise a free tier and then leave the wait undefined, which is the same thing with worse manners. If a launch date is riding on the listing, $15 is not a lot of money for certainty. If it is one of thirty filings happening in a batch, the two months costs you nothing you were planning around.
Nine sites on every page
Worth knowing about, and worth being precise about. Nine external hosts appear on every listing page we sampled: rref-calculator.com, index-now.org, mp4wav.com, aivideo.to, worldclass.domains, anime-pfp.com, hebegs.com, backlinksforsale.com and formatfile.com. That block is presumably the "Listed on 10+ sister sites" their paid tier refers to.
For a submitter it is furniture. It appears on every page regardless of who you are, it is excluded from any honest count of what your listing links to, and it does not change the anchor pointing at you. We are noting it because a network of sites cross-linking from every page is the sort of context a person filing a listing is entitled to have, not because it affects what you get.
A small note on DA and DR
Their submit page advertises DA 30+. Our checker returns DR 15. These are not contradictory figures, because Domain Authority is Moz's metric and Domain Rating is Ahrefs', and the two vendors compute different things on different indexes.
We publish the Ahrefs number because it is the one on every card in our catalog, so the comparison between directories is like for like. If you want to see both for any domain, including ours, our Domain Rating checker gives you the Ahrefs figure in a few seconds and you can run Moz's own tool alongside it.
Spiff.store review: the short answer
Free with a two-month wait, $15 for two days, a followed link on every listing we rendered despite the card promising nofollow, and a form that hands you the page's own SEO title. Spend your effort on that title, host the banner somewhere stable, and file it in a batch.
Their $15 is one listing in two days. Our $29 is thirty you pick.
One payment, every directory named in your dashboard with its Domain Rating on the card, a no-equity mark where the link passes nothing, badges installed and kept live where one is wanted, and a rejection credited back as another directory of your choice.
Better than advertised, for once.
A free DR 15 AI directory with 531 listings. Their card says the free tier gives one no-follow backlink; all 24 listings we rendered carry a followed link straight to the tool. Free means a two-month wait, $15 means two days. The Google Form asks you to write the listing page's own SEO title and meta description, which no other directory here does, so spend your time there. The whole catalog.
FAQ
Is a Spiff.store link dofollow?
Every one we measured is. We rendered 24 listing pages spaced evenly across their 531 and all 24 carry a Visit Website anchor with rel="noopener noreferrer", pointing at the tool's own domain with a ?ref=spiff.store parameter. That is notable because their own pricing card describes the free tier as giving "1 no-follow backlink", so what we measured is better than what they promise.
Why does Spiff.store say the free listing is nofollow?
We do not know, and we are not going to guess. Their submit page lists the Free Listing at $0 with "1 no-follow backlink" among its bullets, and the Fastlane tier at $15 with "100+ do-follow backlinks". Our sample cannot tell which listings paid, but 24 of 24 evenly spaced across the catalogue coming back followed does not fit an explanation where only Fastlane buyers get a followed link. Treat the card as the promise and the measurement as what is there today.
How long does a free Spiff.store listing take?
Two months, by their own statement, repeated in two places: the submission form says "The waiting time for free listings is 2 months" and their FAQ says the same. The Fastlane tier at $15 states two business days. That is the honest trade being offered and it is stated before you fill anything in.
What does the $15 Spiff.store Fastlane include?
Their card lists two days instead of two months, a dedicated listing page, a home page feature, a sitewide feature, "100+ do-follow backlinks", being "Listed on 10+ sister sites", a blog post mention and social sharing. We measured the free listings only, so nothing here verifies the 100+ figure or the sister-site distribution; it is quoted from their page.
What does the Spiff.store submission form ask for?
It is a Google Form, and it asks for something no other directory in this catalog does: your own SEO title and meta description for the listing page. The full set is email, tool name, website URL, short description, long description, SEO title, meta description, category and a website banner image URL, all required, plus an optional video demo URL and an optional affiliate program URL.
Why does it matter that you write the SEO title?
Because you are writing the metadata of a page on somebody else's domain, and most submitters will paste their own homepage title into it. The listing page competes for queries about your product, so the title should read like a review or a directory entry rather than like your home page, and the meta description should say what the page contains rather than repeating your tagline.
What is Spiff.store's Domain Rating?
15, per Ahrefs. Their submit page advertises "DA 30+", which is Moz's Domain Authority rather than Ahrefs' Domain Rating; the two are different metrics from different vendors and are not interchangeable, so both figures can be accurate at once. We publish the Ahrefs number because that is the one on every card in our catalog.
What are the sister sites linked from every Spiff.store page?
Nine external hosts appear on every listing page we sampled: rref-calculator.com, index-now.org, mp4wav.com, aivideo.to, worldclass.domains, anime-pfp.com, hebegs.com, backlinksforsale.com and formatfile.com. That block is presumably the "10+ sister sites" their Fastlane tier refers to. It is site furniture rather than anything attached to your listing, and it does not change the link you get.
Does Spiff.store have a badge?
Yes, at /badge-generator/, described as "Create a premium badge to showcase your listing on Spiff.store". Nothing on their pricing makes it a condition of the listing or the link, so it is optional here. If you do take one, Submitator installs badges through a single component and keeps them live rather than leaving a snippet in your footer to rot.
Does Submitator submit to Spiff.store?
Yes, on the free route, which means the two-month window is the thing to plan around rather than the submission itself. It sits in our catalog with its Domain Rating on the card and the link measured rather than assumed, and a rejection comes back as a credit for another directory of your choice.
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Their $15 is one listing in two days. Our $29 is thirty you pick.
One payment, each directory named with its Domain Rating on the card before you choose it, a no-equity mark where the link passes nothing, badges installed and kept live where one is wanted, and a rejection swapped for another directory.