How to Submit to Startup Benchmarks (DR 58)
Startup Benchmarks is a startup directory (Domain Rating around 58) where listing is free, with one condition: you have to display its "Featured on Startup Benchmarks" badge on your site first. Add the badge as a do-follow link back to your listing, verify it, and your product is reviewed within about 2 business days. In return you get a do-follow backlink from the directory.
The catch with the free listing is the badge: you have to add it and keep it live. With Submitator you don't paste it: install our badge component once and it places and keeps the Startup Benchmarks badge live for you. You get the free listing without the manual work, plus 99 more directories for $29.
Startup Benchmarks at a glance
| Feature | Startup Benchmarks |
|---|---|
| Domain Rating | DR 58 |
| Audience | Startups / makers |
| Listing | Free, badge required |
| Backlink | Do-follow (per its badge instructions) |
| Badge | Required on your homepage or footer |
| Review | Around 2 business days |
Startup Benchmarks' free listing requires its 'Featured on Startup Benchmarks' badge on your homepage or footer as a do-follow link to your listing URL; after verifying it, your product is reviewed within about 2 business days. It's DR 58 and the listing is described as a do-follow link. Verify the current terms and link type on startupbenchmarks.com. Last checked July 2026.
How to submit to Startup Benchmarks, step by step
- 1
Add your website
Enter your product homepage. Startup Benchmarks generates a badge for that site, which you'll add before continuing to the listing details.
- 2
Add the badge and verify it
Copy the light or dark 'Featured on Startup Benchmarks' badge to your homepage or footer, as a do-follow link to your listing URL, then hit Verify Badge so it can confirm the badge is live.
- 3
Add your details
Fill in the basics: product name, tagline, description, a logo, and a screenshot. Then submit for review.
The badge, handled for you
Step two is the real work. Startup Benchmarks won't unlock the submit form until you've added its badge to your homepage or footer and it has verified the badge is live, linking back to your listing. That's fine for one directory, but it stacks up across dozens, each with its own badge to install and keep live. Submitator handles every one of these for you, you install one component, once:
Badges Submitator places + keeps live
Free with a badge, or handled by us
Submitator covers Startup Benchmarks itself, badge and all, so this isn't Submitator instead of Startup Benchmarks, it's the way to get the listing without the badge chore, plus a stack of other directories at the same time.
| Feature | Free + badge | Submitator |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Free | from $29 |
| Badge on your site | You paste it + keep it live | Handled + kept live |
| Directories | Startup Benchmarks only | Startup Benchmarks + 99 more |
| Your effort | 3-step form + badge, per directory | One component, once |
Submitator includes Startup Benchmarks and handles its badge for the free listing, then submits you to 99 more directories. The Startup Benchmarks review (around 2 business days) is on their side either way.
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Startup Benchmarks' free listing needs a badge kept live on your site. Submitator installs and keeps it live, so you get the DR-58 listing without the paste, plus 99 more directories, all from one dashboard.
FAQ
Is Startup Benchmarks free to submit to?
Yes, with a badge. Listing on Startup Benchmarks is free, but before you can submit you have to add its 'Featured on Startup Benchmarks' badge to your homepage or footer as a do-follow link back to your listing, then verify it. After that, your product is reviewed within about 2 business days.
How do you submit to Startup Benchmarks?
It's a three-step form. First you enter your product homepage and it generates a badge. Second, you add that badge to your site (homepage or footer) as a do-follow link to your listing URL, and verify it to unlock the form. Third, you fill in the basic details: product name, tagline, description, logo, and a screenshot.
What is Startup Benchmarks' Domain Rating?
Around DR 58. The free listing gives you a do-follow backlink from the site, in exchange for displaying its badge (itself a do-follow link back to Startup Benchmarks) on your own site. Verify the current figures before you rely on them.
Do I have to put a badge on my site for Startup Benchmarks?
On the free listing, yes, and it has to stay live for the listing to stay verified. With Submitator you don't paste it by hand: our badge component installs and keeps the Startup Benchmarks badge live for you, so you get the listing without the manual work.
Does Submitator submit to Startup Benchmarks?
Yes. Startup Benchmarks is one of the 100+ directories Submitator covers. We submit you, handle the badge for the free listing and keep it live, and submit you to 99 more real directories at the same time, from $29 one-time.
Is a Startup Benchmarks backlink dofollow?
The free listing is described as a do-follow link on the Startup Benchmarks site, and the badge you place in return is also a do-follow link back to them. Confirm the link type on your own live listing. Submitator focuses on real, dofollow directories.
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