Directory Boost - done-for-you directory submissions
Get listed in 50 dofollow directories. Skip the forms.
Spook creates the accounts, fills the forms, handles the verification emails, and tracks every listing until it is live. One site, one payment, and nothing is submitted until you approve the copy.
- $99 once, no subscription
- About 7 hours of signups saved
- DR tracked before and after
Your listings
example- StartupFA.meDR 83startupfa.me/yoursiteLive
- FazierDR 82fazier.com/yoursiteLive
- twelve.toolsDR 81awaiting their reviewSubmitted
- Dang AIDR 81dang.ai/yoursiteLive
- findly.toolsDR 80awaiting their reviewIn review
- Turbo0DR 80scheduledQueued
One row per directory, with the listing URL once it is live. Live rows are re-checked weekly.
Domain Rating
example917
snapshot before the first submission, then weekly
Why directories
The fastest legitimate backlinks a new site can get
Not a trick, not a private blog network. Public directories that exist to list products like yours, and link to them.
Referring domains you would never earn cold
Directories link to you because listing products is what they do. The 50 in this run have a median Domain Rating of 53, 30 of them sit at DR 50 or above, and the strongest is DR 83. Outreach for links like that takes months.
Domain Rating that lifts everything you publish
Backlinks are the authority signal search engines weigh most. A higher DR does not rank one page, it raises the floor for every article on the domain, which is why this is the first thing to do on a site that is about to start publishing.
A trickle of founder and early-adopter traffic
People browse these directories to find new tools, and the listings show up in Google for "X alternative" and "best X tools" searches. It is not a firehose, but it is traffic a new domain gets no other way in its first months.
Consistent listings, everywhere at once
The same name, tagline, description, logo and URL on every directory is what makes the profile credible to a visitor, and is the kind of entity consistency AI answer engines lean on when deciding whether a product is real.
Inside the catalog
Hand-picked for dofollow links, measured by Domain Rating
Every directory in the run was chosen because it links back with a dofollow. Domain Ratings are live Ahrefs values, refreshed as they drift. 34 of the 50 unlock the dofollow once their badge is on your site, and Spook hands you the badge kit for those.
- directories submitted for you
- 50
- median Domain Rating
- 53
- of them at DR 50 or above
- 30
- combined Domain Rating
- 2,750
Domain Rating spread
- DR 80+7
- DR 70s6
- DR 60s8
- DR 50s9
- DR 40s13
- Under 407
Strongest names in the run
by DR- StartupFA.meDR 83
- FazierDR 82
- twelve.toolsDR 81
- Dang AIDR 81
- findly.toolsDR 80
- Turbo0DR 80
- SaaSHubDR 80
- Wired BusinessDR 77
- Active Search ResultsDR 74
- PeerPushDR 74
- neeed.directoryDR 72
- TinyLaunchDR 72
- + 38 more
The full list, with each directory's status and listing URL, opens in your dashboard after purchase. We keep it there rather than here so the catalog stays worth something to the people who paid for it.
How it works
You approve once. Spook does the rest.
Four steps from a bare domain to a tracker full of live listings.
Add your site and buy the boost
Create a free Spook account, add your site, and pay $99 once on the Backlinks page. Spook reads your homepage and drafts the listing kit: name, tagline, a short and a long description, categories, logo and cover image.
Listing kit
drafted- Name
- Yoursite
- Tagline
- The short line directories ask for
- Categories
- SaaS, Marketing
Approve the copy
The kit is an editable form. Change anything you like, then click approve. Until you do, nothing leaves Spook. Edits after approval flow into every submission that has not run yet.
Long description (edited by you)
Spook submits
It creates the account where one is needed, fills the form, uploads the logo, and clicks the verification link from a dedicated inbox. Each directory is worked in turn, and the tracker updates as every one is sent.
twelve.toolsDR 81
in progress- Account created
- Verification link clicked from your Spook inbox
- Logo and cover uploaded, form submitted
Track every listing to live
Each directory has a row: queued, submitted, live, or needs you. Live rows carry the listing URL and are re-checked weekly. Your Domain Rating is snapshotted before the first submission and tracked every week after.
- Dang AILive
- findly.toolsSubmitted
- Turbo0Queued
The fine print, before you pay
What this does not promise
Directory submission services tend to sell a number. Here is what sits behind ours.
Directories review by hand, on their clock.
Submitted is not live. Some publish the same day, some take weeks, and the tracker shows the difference instead of pretending.
34 of the 50 want their badge on your site first.
That is the trade for the dofollow. Spook gives you a copy-paste badge kit, but placing it is your call, and until it is up those links stay nofollow.
A directory can decline your site.
Category mismatch, a niche they do not cover, a name already taken. The row is marked with the reason rather than quietly dropped.
Domain Rating moves, by how much nobody can promise.
It depends on where you start and when Ahrefs next crawls. We snapshot DR before the first submission and track it weekly, so the answer is measured, not claimed.
We run Directory Boost on tryspook.com itself. The wall of directory badges in the footer of this page is what that run produced.
Pricing
One price, per site, once
No subscription required. A free Spook account and your site are all it takes.
Directory Boost
$99one-time, per site
- 50 directory submissions, done by Spook
- A listing kit written from your site: name, tagline, descriptions, categories, logo and cover
- Approval gate: nothing is submitted until you sign off on the copy
- 30 directory accounts created and verified through a dedicated inbox
- A tracker with one row per directory and the listing URL once it is live
- Badge kit for the 34 directories that unlock dofollow with their badge
- Domain Rating snapshot before the first submission, then tracked weekly
- Live listings re-checked weekly so a removed link does not go unnoticed
Bought inside your dashboard on the Backlinks page. The 7-day Spook trial needs no card, and the boost is billed separately.
Or do it yourself
- 50 submission forms
- 30 accounts and passwords
- 30 verification emails
- 50 logo uploads and croppers
- About 7 hours, then no record of what went live
Every one of those forms asks the same eight questions, and every account wants its own email confirmed. The boost costs less than an afternoon of it.
Directory submissions, answered
A service that lists your product on startup and SaaS directories for you: creating the accounts, filling the forms, uploading the logo and confirming the verification emails. Spook's Directory Boost does this for you across 50 directories for a one-time $99, and tracks every listing until it is live.
50 today, all hand-picked because they give a dofollow link and all submitted by Spook end to end. The number moves as directories open, close or change their rules; the page reads it from the same catalog Spook submits from, so what you see is what gets submitted.
Every directory in the catalog was chosen for a dofollow link. 34 of the 50 only flip the link to dofollow once their badge is on your site, so Spook hands you a copy-paste badge kit. Directories can change their rules, which is why live listings are re-checked weekly and the tracker shows what each link actually is.
The submissions themselves are the quick part. Most directories then review by hand, which can take anywhere from the same day to a few weeks on their side, and some only publish once their badge is on your site. The tracker shows each directory's state as it changes, so you are never guessing where a listing stands.
Usually, and nobody honest can promise by how much. Ahrefs recalculates DR as it discovers new referring domains, and a fresh site with few links tends to move the most. Spook snapshots your DR before the first submission and tracks it weekly, so you see exactly what the boost did rather than taking our word for it.
No. Directory Boost is a one-time purchase per site. A free Spook account and your site are all it takes; the 7-day trial needs no card. The tracker lives in your dashboard alongside the rest of Spook if you decide to keep using it.
Your website URL. Spook drafts the listing kit from your site and shows it to you as an editable form: name, tagline, short and long descriptions, categories, logo, cover image, founder facts like year founded and team size. You correct anything that is off and approve.
The row says so. A directory that will not take the site is marked ineligible with the reason, and one that already has a listing is recorded with that listing's URL, since the backlink is the goal, not authorship. Nothing is silently skipped.
Yes, it is the best moment. New sites have almost no referring domains, so a batch of dofollow directory links is the fastest legitimate way to give search engines a reason to trust the domain. Directories also send a trickle of founder and early-adopter traffic that a launch-week site does not otherwise get.
50 listings, one approval
Add your site, sign off on the copy, and watch the tracker fill in.
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