One Field, Your Product URL. Toplistly Drafts the Rest.

Paste the address, press Submit product

Every page on Toplistly has a Submit button at the right of its header, and the home page adds a Submit your product button of its own. Both open the page headed "Launch your product on Toplistly", with the form just below the heading.

Paste the full address into Product URL, https:// included, because the form answers anything less with "Enter the full address, starting with https://." Then press Submit product. Use the page you want visitors to arrive on, which for most products is the homepage. The listing is drafted from the address you give, so make sure that page explains the product well.

Your homepage is the brief

With nothing to fill in but the address, your homepage does the talking. Toplistly drafts the listing from what it finds there, and the line that matters most is the tagline, which the preview beside the form calls "Your tagline, first thing people see." You will find it under the product name on the page and on the cards that link to it, in the browser tab after the name, at the start of the meta description and on the preview image shown when the page is shared.

So say it on your own site first. Give your title tag and your opening headline the line you would want as a tagline, and use your first paragraph to say what the product is for and who needs it. The same groundwork pays off on every directory that builds a listing from your site instead of asking you to type one.

The main image comes from the same place. On 174 of the 178 listings it is a screenshot of the product's own homepage, framed on a panel in the brand's colour. Check how your first screen looks with nothing on top of it: no cookie notice, chat bubble or pop-up across the headline.

What the free listing comes with

First, a page of its own. Every listing page is open to indexing, names itself as canonical and appears in Toplistly's sitemap, with the tagline in its title. It shows the name, the tagline, the categories as chips and the framed homepage screenshot. A side card lists pricing, platforms, website and launch date. The description sits below, under an Overview tab.

Then the placements. The product is filed in one to three of Toplistly's 75 categories, whose pages put the newest launches first. Most listing pages also carry a Similar products block that can show it beside related tools.

One thing to plan around. The Visit website button on a free listing runs through Toplistly's own redirect and carries rel="nofollow", so the listing passes no link equity. Toplistly's FAQ is open about the route: "Free listings link through our redirect." Plan on Toplistly for the launch day, the page and the category placement. Visitors who click still land on your site, and their visits arrive tagged ref=toplistly.

After launch day

Launch day is not the last time the product is shown. A Product of the day card sits in the homepage sidebar, and Toplistly's line on it is "Every launched product is in the daily rotation on the homepage sidebar." The listing also stays in its categories, next to the tools people compare it with.

Three extras are yours to add later, and none is required. A discount code goes on the Discounts tab: "Send us a code and it shows on your product page and in the listings." The featured badge, a small image that links to your Toplistly page, is copied from your listing's Embed tab. Changes to the wording or the categories go by email to info@toplistly.com, and their FAQ says "we will update your product page."

Skip the line and Sponsored, arranged by email

Two paid options sit beside the free one. Skip the line, $19 paid once, lets you pick the launch date and adds "Priority review". Sponsored, $29 a month, pins the product first on the homepage and first in its categories, marks it with a "Sponsored label" and adds a "Direct do-follow link to your website".

There is no checkout for either. Each button opens an email to info@toplistly.com, and the Advertise page sets out what follows: "We reply with a payment link and set up your placement once it is paid." Sponsorship is limited by category: "Sponsored slots are one per category, first come, first served." Under the cards sits "Month to month, no contract · Cancel anytime."

Run by a human, and it reads that way

One of Toplistly's pages is called By a human, and it opens with "Toplistly is run by a human." That human is Jan Lavička, its founder and sole developer, who describes the site as "a fully bootstrapped and customer-funded platform, free from venture capital influence."

It shows in the details. The submit page answers "Do I get a backlink?" in two plain sentences and puts a price on the direct link in the open. Sponsored cards are labelled, so visitors can tell a bought placement from a launch. Changing a listing takes one email, and no badge or link back is asked of a free product.

Your URL, filed by us

Toplistly sits in our catalog as a free-route directory. Choose it and we send your product URL; the listing is then drafted by Toplistly from your site, exactly as for every free submission.

Toplistly can fill one of the thirty places in a $29 Starter plan, picked from a dashboard where every directory card carries its Domain Rating. It goes out with the rest of your picks. Submitting a whole package is aimed at 2 to 3 days, and our terms cap the commitment at 21 days. Toplistly runs its own review and launch queue after that, and a rejected submission adds another directory to your selection.

Is a Toplistly launch worth it?

Yes. It costs one field and nothing on your site, and Toplistly drafts the listing for you. On its launch day the product leads the homepage feed; after that it joins the daily rotation and stays in its categories. If your homepage says plainly what the product does, the brief is already written.