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Put this on your site and your listing costs nothing. Leave it off and a listing is a one-time $29. That is the whole deal: we send you visitors, you send us a link.

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<a target="_blank" href="https://cloutstack.net/tool/your-tool"><img src="https://cloutstack.net/badge/badge.png" alt="Featured on CloutStack" height="54" loading="lazy"></a>
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Replace your-tool with your own listing slug. Once you submit a tool, the dashboard shows the snippet with your slug already filled in.

What we check

All of it is automated, and the dashboard tells you exactly which rule failed if one ever does.

  • It has to be a link, not just the image

    The <img> must sit inside an <a> pointing at your listing. An image on its own does not count.

  • The link must be followed

    No rel="nofollow", "sponsored" or "ugc". Those tell search engines to ignore the link, which is the only thing we get in return for the free listing.

  • It goes on your home page

    Your home page, or a footer that appears on it, which comes to the same thing. An about or press page does not count: the link is what the free listing is in exchange for, and one nobody reaches is not worth a listing.

  • It has to be visible

    A link hidden with CSS, or moved off screen, is not a link anybody sees. We check the page as a reader gets it.

  • It has to stay up

    We check before your listing goes live, every six hours for the first week, then weekly. Take it down in the first week and the listing hides until it returns.

Where to put it

Works

  • Site footer, on every page
  • An about, press or partners page
  • A "featured in" strip on the home page

Does not work

  • The image without a link around it
  • A link carrying rel="nofollow"
  • Anything hidden with CSS
  • A page that returns a not-found error

Would rather not link out?

Pay $29 once and the listing is yours with no badge and no checks.

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