Submit to AlterBase: Fields, Timeline and What You Get

AlterBase is an alternatives database: products are listed as substitutes for other products. That means your listing needs a named competitor to be legible.

The short answer

Nothing about AlterBase is complicated, and that is the trap: people treat directory submissions as too small to record, then cannot say a year later how many of two hundred listings are still live.

Before you touch the form

Name the incumbent. Alternative searchers arrive with a tool in mind, and a listing without a named competitor reads as irrelevant.

What AlterBase is

An alternatives directory where products are grouped against the tools they replace, with comparison-oriented listings. Start from alterbase.co, where the submission form lives.

What it is good for

Comparison sites rank for high-intent queries, and the visitor arrives already choosing between vendors — the best traffic a directory can send.

Submitting, in order

List the tools you replace
Pick the one with the weakest alternatives page
Write 'the X alternative for Y'
Fill categories and platforms
Check a comparable listing's attribute

One thing that catches people out

Name the incumbent. 'The lightweight alternative to X' tells a searcher arriving from a comparison query exactly what they are looking at in one line.

Mistakes that waste the submission

Pasting a 500-character description into a 220-character field
Skipping the rules page, then resubmitting without changing anything
Using an address you will not control in a year
Ignoring a badge requirement that turns a link into a plain URL
Reporting submissions as if they were indexed placements

Checking what you actually got

Search the exact listing title in Google — absent means not indexed
Count how many outbound links sit beside yours on the page
Inspect the rel attribute on the link to your domain
Follow the link and confirm it lands on the page you submitted
Write the outcome in the sheet the same day

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Name the incumbent

An alternatives database is organised by the tool being replaced, so a listing without a named competitor has nowhere to sit and nothing to say.

Naming the incumbent is not aggressive; it is the format.

What alternative searchers want

They are already using something and are dissatisfied with a specific part of it: the price, the complexity, the support, the missing integration.

The listing should name that part, in one clause, and stop.

The comparison line

"The lightweight alternative to X for teams that need Y" is a complete listing: it matches the query, names the incumbent and gives a reason.

Everything after it is detail for someone who has already clicked.

Which incumbent to claim

Choose the tool your buyers actually leave. A more famous incumbent brings more search traffic, and an implausible claim produces a listing nobody believes.

Volume of demand and believability trade off against each other; pick the balance you can defend.

Pricing in an alternatives listing

Comparison readers scan for a lower entry point. If the product is cheaper, give the number and the basis; if not, compete on the constraint instead.

A price with no basis is unreadable in this context.

Page fit after publication

Check that the listing landed in the group you intended. Comparison sets are regenerated, and a misfiled product ends up next to tools nobody would compare it with.

If it drifted, request a change.

Re-checking the group

Quarterly, confirm the group still makes sense. Products get acquired, renamed and repositioned, and a page full of dead competitors stops ranking.

The listing's value depends on the page's continued relevance, not on your entry alone.

The second incumbent

If the product genuinely replaces two tools, submit once with the primary incumbent and mention the second in the description. Two listings on the same page read as spam.

The primary should be the tool most of your buyers currently pay for, not the most famous one in the category.