Submit to Apps and Websites: Fields, Timeline and What You Get

Apps and Websites is a broad catalog covering both, which means the taxonomy is huge and the category chosen determines visibility entirely.

The short answer

Submit to Apps and Websites if its category page is indexed and the listings beside yours are followed. Skip it if a site: search on the directory returns nothing — a listing on an invisible page is a form you filled in, not a citation.

Before you touch the form

Spend the time on taxonomy rather than wording: open the tree to leaf level and write the path down. In a catalogue this size the path is the listing, and a good description in a generic parent is wasted.

What Apps and Websites is

A directory listing applications and websites by category, with short descriptions and outbound links.

What it is good for

App and software catalogues reach people looking for something to install or subscribe to, which suits products with a visible interface and a short time-to-value.

Submitting, in order

Explore the taxonomy to the leaf level
Pick the deepest relevant category
Write the description for that context
Submit with a screenshot
Check the category page indexes

One thing that catches people out

Submit to the deepest subcategory that fits. On broad catalogs the shallow categories are saturated and the deep ones are the only pages that rank.

Mistakes that waste the submission

Submitting before the pricing page exists
Filing the product under a category with no comparable tools in it
Reusing a logo that fails the card’s aspect ratio
Never returning to the listing, so a broken link stays broken
Counting citations as link equity

Checking what you actually got

Load the listing in a private window, as a stranger would
Check the screenshot or logo renders at the size the card expects
Inspect the outbound link, not the button, if it routes through a redirect
After six weeks, run a site: query on the listing URL
Record followed or not followed — that field predicts value

Where SaasHunt fits

The other half of this decision is timing. SaasHunt takes submissions for a fixed 08:00 UTC go-live, so the listing goes on a calendar instead of a hope list. Approved listings are dofollow; paid tiers from $9.9 skip the queue, and $49 adds a newsletter slot.

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The path is the listing

In a catalogue this large, the category path decides visibility entirely. A parent category holds hundreds of entries; a leaf holds fifteen.

The path, not the paragraph, is the submission.

Deep categories versus saturated parents

Shallow categories are where everyone submits, because the names are obvious. They are also where nothing ranks and nobody scrolls.

Deep leaves are harder to find and are the only pages that have a chance of being browsed.

Write the path down

Open the tree in the browser, navigate to the leaf, and copy the URL. Then find that path in the form's dropdown and confirm the select value matches.

Dropdowns in large trees are sorted differently from the navigation, and mismatches are common.

What a leaf page gives you

A page with a name, a handful of neighbours and a chance of ranking for the category term. That is the smallest unit of discoverability in a large directory.

The card inside it matters less than being inside it.

When the leaf is empty

An empty leaf is accurate and worthless: a page with a title and one entry, which nobody visits and search engines ignore.

Prefer a populated leaf one level up over an empty leaf that fits exactly.

Copy for a deep taxonomy

Because the neighbours are specific, the description can be specific too. Less category explanation, more differentiation against the three tools beside you.

That is the opposite of what a broad parent requires, and it is a pleasant consequence of choosing well.

The check afterwards

Open the category page and confirm the card is on the first screen. If it is not, the leaf was too large and the choice was wrong.

Note the position in the row so the next submission starts from better information.

Two clicks from the root

Whatever the depth of the tree, a listing should be reachable in two clicks from the category root. Deeper than that and the page is crawled rarely and browsed never.

If the leaf requires four clicks, choose a shallower branch with comparable neighbours.