How to Use This Directory
and Choose Well.

How to Read a Listing

Each publication has a permanent page, laid out the same way. The measurements on it fall into three groups, and they answer three different questions.

Rule of thumb: authority tells you what a link could pass, traffic tells you whether anyone will see it, and cadence tells you whether the site will still be there in a year.

The Traffic Grade, Explained

This is the number we would most want you to understand, because it is the one almost no directory publishes.

Ahrefs and Semrush estimate organic traffic independently. They use different keyword databases and different clickstream sources, so they never agree exactly — a 20–40% difference is completely normal. But when one tool reports many times what the other does, that is not noise. It usually means the higher figure includes traffic the other tool cannot verify: bot visits, a single freak keyword, or an index the second tool has already discounted.

A live example from this directory

The widest gap currently listed is apkprotech.com: Ahrefs reports 30.4K monthly visits while Semrush reports 196 — a 155.1× difference, graded D. The listing is still worth considering; it simply should be judged on the lower number, which is the reading everything on this site is computed against.

For context: during research we found a competing directory listing a site at 339,410 Ahrefs traffic and 1,456 Semrush — a 233× gap — printed side by side with no comment at all. That is the practice this grade exists to correct.

Authority Versus Audience

Domain Authority and Domain Rating both score a link profile. Neither one counts a single reader. That distinction is the one buyers lose the most money on, because links can be acquired in weeks while an audience takes years — so a domain can carry DA 60, rank for almost nothing, and receive almost no organic traffic, while still looking excellent in the one number most directories print.

Read the four numbers against each other rather than one at a time. The distance between DA and DR shows how far two independent link models disagree about the same profile. The distance between authority and verified traffic — the lower of the two traffic readings — shows whether that profile is attached to anybody.

A wide authority gap is not a disqualification. It usually means the link profile is stronger in one dimension than the other — plenty of legitimate publishers sit that way. A thin audience behind a high score is the more serious signal: it says the authority was built by links rather than earned by readers, and a link on a page nobody opens passes whatever ranking power it has into silence.

What this replaces: we used to publish a cost-per-thousand-visits ratio here. Rates change, so that ratio was accurate for about as long as the price behind it — and a number that quietly goes wrong is worse than no number. The authority and traffic readings above do not expire that way. For the current rate on a shortlist, ask us; every listing says “Email for details” for that reason.

Using the Filters

The directory filters instantly — no reloads. Here is what each control is actually for.

• SearchMatches on domain name. Use it when you already have a shortlist.
• SubjectPrimary topic, judged on what the site publishes — not what it claims.
• Domain age1, 3, 5 or 10 years since registration, taken from the registry record. A domain registered last spring has no track record to judge.
• Min DA / Min DRSet both. A site strong on one and weak on the other is worth a second look.
• Traffic gradeThe tightest filter here, and the one to set first. 1 of the 25 listings currently clears "A or B"; 2 clear "A, B or C".
• Sort byDA, DR, traffic or domain age. Narrow with the filters first — sorting a full list only tells you which extreme is which.

A good starting combination: Traffic grade A or B, Min DA 40, sorted by traffic. That is the strictest question you can put to this directory — it asks for authority with a verified audience behind it — and today it returns 1 of the 25 listings. When it leaves you too little to choose from, widen the grade to A, B or C before you lower the DA floor: a weak grade tells you the two traffic sources disagree, which is a worse thing to ignore than a few points of authority. There is no budget filter, because there are no published prices to filter on — every listing says “Email for details” so the figure you get is the current one.

How to Choose Well

1. Filter to grade A or B first. Everything else is secondary to whether the traffic is real. This single step removes most of the risk.
2. Read the two authority scores against each other. A domain strong on DA and weak on DR — or the reverse — has a lopsided link profile. The gap is printed on every listing, next to the traffic that should be behind it.
3. Check relevance before authority. A DA 40 site your audience actually reads beats a DA 70 site they do not. Subject fit outranks both numbers.
4. Open the site. Every listing names the publisher's domain — open it and read two articles. If you would not want your brand next to them, the metrics do not matter.
5. Look at cadence and age. A site updating 30+ pages a month with a multi-year archive will still be there next year. One updating twice a month may not.
6. Spread across subjects. Ten placements on near-identical multi-topic blogs look exactly like what they are. A mix across genuinely different publications does not.

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