Spiff Store Submission Guide: What to Prepare First

Spiff Store is a storefront-style directory: products presented like items in a shop, with categories and cards. Presentation matters more than prose.

The short answer

Nothing about Spiff Store 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

Render the product image against a plain background at the size the shelf uses. Storefront layouts judge the picture before the label, and a screenshot with browser chrome around it looks second-hand.

Submitting, in order

Write a shelf-label description
Add the price if it helps
Choose the store category
Submit with a product image
Check the card

What Spiff Store is

A product storefront directory where listings are displayed as cards with short descriptions and links. The submission form is on spiffstore.com.

One thing that catches people out

Treat the card like a shelf label: name, one benefit, price if relevant. Long copy breaks the retail metaphor and gets skipped.

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

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 shelf label test

A storefront card behaves like a label on a shelf: name, one benefit, price. Anything longer breaks the metaphor and stops being read.

Apply the test before submitting. If the text would look odd printed under a product in a shop, it is too long for this template.

Image on a plain background

Storefront layouts judge the picture first. A screenshot with browser chrome, a cursor or a gradient backdrop looks second-hand next to a clean product shot.

Render the interface on white or a single flat colour, cropped tight, at the size the shelf uses.

Price as part of the label

If the directory shows a price, the card is a shop item and the number belongs in the label. "From $19" with a billing basis reads as a retail price.

A card without a price in a shelf of priced items looks incomplete, which is the opposite of the intended effect.

Retail metaphor and copy length

Shops do not explain. They present, and the reader decides. That is the register this template is built for.

One benefit, no feature tour, no paragraph of positioning. The product page behind the click is where explanation belongs.

Category as an aisle

Categories here behave like aisles: a visitor walking one is looking for a type of thing and comparing similar items.

Choosing the aisle matters more than the position within it, because the audience arrives through the aisle rather than the homepage.

Checking the card in the grid

After publication, look at the category page and check that the image sits on its background correctly, the text does not wrap awkwardly, and the price rendered.

Three defects that are invisible during submission and obvious in the grid.

What a storefront listing is worth

Occasional discovery traffic, a permanent page, and a citation. The presentation cost is higher than a text directory and the return is the same order of magnitude.

Worth doing once per product, and worth doing properly rather than quickly.