What we sell, and what we refuse to sell

What a sponsored placement includes

• A ranked position on one of the two paid boards on the directory page — 1 day for $10, or 30 days for $87. Each board has 8 positions, ordered by bid.
• A listing page of your own at /websites/your-site, which stays up whether or not a placement is running.
• A “Sponsored” label on every surface the placement appears on.
• A click counter showing real, de-duplicated outbound clicks — including when the number is unflattering.
• Removal on request at any time, with a pro-rata refund for days not served.

What it explicitly does not include

This is the section most directories leave out, so it is the longest one here.

• Any search-ranking benefit. Every outbound link in this directory carries rel="sponsored nofollow noopener" and passes through a redirect that is disallowed in robots.txt and served with X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow. This applies to paid and free listings identically, and it is not negotiable at any price. Paying for links that pass ranking signals is link spam under Google's spam policies; the consequence would land on this site, and the link would stop being worth anything to you the moment it did.
• A position nobody can take from you. Position is decided by who bought most recently, so you enter at number one and move down as other people buy. We will not tell you how fast that happens, because it depends on demand we cannot predict. What you are buying is a place on the board for the term you paid for — not a permanent spot at the top. given day it may not appear. The mechanic is documented in full and is deterministic, so any day can be reconstructed and checked.
• A traffic guarantee. We do not promise click volumes, and we will not quote you a projection dressed up as a forecast. This is a young directory; the counter tells you what it actually delivered.
• Position in editorial rankings. Category pages are ordered by real clicks, then claimed status, then alphabetically. Bids do not affect them. A ranking that can be bought is not worth reading, and the reading is what you are buying access to.
• Editorial control. You write your own listing copy, but we will decline claims we cannot substantiate and will not publish a description that promises readers a ranking benefit.

Free listings

A free listing gets a permanent page, a place in the 12 free rotation slots, inclusion in its category, and the same real click counter. It does not expire, there is no account, and there is no point at which it converts into a bill. The only thing the paid tier adds is the sponsored slot.

Unclaimed listings

A listing can be submitted by somebody other than the site owner. Those entries are marked Unclaimed, carry no statistics beyond clicks actually counted, and are never eligible for a sponsored slot — selling exposure for a site whose owner never opted in would misrepresent an endorsement. If a listing is yours you can claim it, correct it, or have it deleted, free, without an argument.

The specific mechanism, because a removal right you cannot find is not a right: every listing page carries a “Something wrong here?” link that opens a short form for exactly this. We do not ask you to prove the site is yours first, and the contact email on that form is optional — a takedown is honoured whether or not we can write back to you. The only thing we cannot promise is instant: these pages are prerendered, so a removed listing stops being served on the next deploy, usually within a day. If it is urgent, say so on the form and we will deploy for it.

What we reject

• Malware, phishing, and anything illegal in Pakistan or the advertiser's own jurisdiction.
• Sites whose primary offering is selling backlinks or link placements — for exactly the reason stated above.
• Scraped or auto-generated sites with no original content of their own.
• Adult content, gambling, and anything requiring a licence the advertiser does not hold.
• Copy that promises readers a ranking benefit, a guaranteed outcome, or a fabricated metric.

Payment

Reserving a slot charges nothing. We reply with an invoice and the dates it would run; the placement goes live once the invoice is settled, and you can walk away before then at no cost.

The honest reason there is no card checkout: the merchant-of-record platforms built for software products prohibit payments connected to advertising and sponsorship outright — Polar's acceptable use policy lists “advertising, and sponsorship” among categories it will not accept payments for, and lists “directories and boards” as restricted; Paddle uses near-identical wording. Stripe permits the category but does not offer merchant accounts in the country this site is operated from. Signing up anyway and taking your money would predictably end with a frozen payout, so we invoice by hand instead.

Refunds

Pro-rata for days a placement did not run as invoiced. No refund for a placement that ran and simply underperformed — but you will have seen the click data throughout, and the term ends on its own rather than auto-renewing.

Changes to these terms

If these terms change in a way that reduces what an active placement gets, the placement keeps the terms it was bought under until its term ends. Changes are dated at the top of this page.

Not legal advice

This page describes how we operate; it is not legal advice, and the characterisation of Google's policies here is our reading of their published spam policies rather than a statement from Google. If you need a formal contract for a placement, ask and we will put one together.