How to Submit to Amaze Directory: A 2026 Walkthrough

Amaze Directory is a general product catalog in the batch tier: categories, cards, links. Ten minutes of work, one citation, and a row in your sheet.

The short answer

The submission is the easy part. What decides whether Amaze Directory was worth the ten minutes is whether the listing gets published, whether the outbound link is followed, and whether the page is indexed six weeks later.

What Amaze Directory is

A general product and tools directory with category pages, short descriptions and outbound links.

Before you touch the form

Check the newest entry date and the last-updated stamp before filling anything in. General catalogs fade quietly, and deciding beats submitting when the answer is that this one has stopped.

Submitting, in order

Check the category's newest entry
Confirm the site is still updated
Submit if recent activity exists
Log the URL
Re-check at ninety days

One thing that catches people out

Check the category page for other listings from this year. A category whose newest entry is two years old means the site has stopped being maintained.

What it is good for

General and niche directories give a young domain a citation that persists for years, which matters when the domain currently has almost none.

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

Where SaasHunt fits

SaasHunt is the launch half of the same plan: SaaS-specific, publishing at 08:00 UTC, daily and weekly Top 5 with the weekly winners going to the newsletter, and a dofollow link on every approved listing. Free requires the badge and can queue for up to 270 days; Premium at $9.9 skips the queue; Premium Plus at $12.9 adds earliest scheduling and a permanent featured slot; SEO Growth at $49 adds the newsletter and a dedicated review; DR Booster at $50 adds ten permanent dofollow links from DR 30–65 sites.

SaasHunt

The freshness test

Before filling a form, check two dates: the newest listing and the last site update. A general catalogue that stopped publishing two years ago still accepts submissions and will still show your card, but nothing crawls it and nobody reads it.

The test takes twenty seconds and it is the difference between a citation and a form submission.

What a stopped catalogue costs

It costs the ten minutes plus the row in your sheet plus the quarterly checks you will perform on a page that will never matter. Small costs, repeated forty times, are the reason founders conclude that directories do not work.

They do work. Stopped catalogues do not, and they are the majority of the long tail.

The category page is the evidence

Look at the category you intend to join and read the entries. If every product in it is from a different era of the web — old logos, dead links, names you have never heard — the page is an archive.

A live category has a mix: a few recent entries, some older ones, and at least one product still operating.

Ten minutes, one row

For a catalogue that passes the freshness test, the correct investment is the master description, the logo, the category, and a row in the sheet. No bespoke copywriting, no follow-up email.

The economics only work at that level of effort. Anything more and the batch becomes a project, which is the point at which founders stop doing it.

When to skip

Skip when the newest entry is over a year old, when the site has no indexed category pages, or when the form requires a reciprocal link.

Those three conditions cover most of the bad half of the long tail, and applying them costs less time than submitting and auditing later.

What the citation is worth

A page on a maintained general directory is a permanent mention on a domain with some age. It will not move a domain rating on its own, and it will contribute to the count of referring domains that eventually does.

That is the honest value: one unit, in a set that needs dozens.

Recording it properly

Slug, date, category, live URL, attribute, next check. Six fields, entered immediately, because the only thing that makes a batch of twenty maintainable is the sheet you wrote while you were bored.