Submit to WebAppRater: Fields, Timeline and What You Get

WebAppRater is a review-driven web app directory: listings compete on ratings and user feedback rather than on taglines. That changes what you should bring to the submission.

The short answer

The submission is the easy part. What decides whether WebAppRater 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.

Before you touch the form

Find out whether ratings reorder the category before asking anyone to rate you. Review-driven directories reward a burst of feedback, and a burst landing before you understand the sort order is wasted.

What WebAppRater is

A web application directory where products are listed with descriptions, categories and user ratings or reviews. The submission form is on webapprater.com.

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

Check how ratings affect ordering
Ask five real users to rate
Write the description as an outcome
Submit with a current screenshot
Reply to any review

One thing that catches people out

Ask your first ten users to rate the listing in the week it goes live. Ratings move position on review-driven directories, and an empty star count looks worse than no listing.

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

Learn the sort order first

Does the category sort by rating, by recency, or by an editorial score? The answer determines whether ratings are worth collecting and how many.

Find out before asking anyone to do anything.

A burst of honest ratings

Review-driven directories reward a cluster of real feedback in the first fortnight. Five ratings arriving together move a listing up; one rating a month does nothing.

Ask users who have actually used the product, and ask for a sentence rather than a star.

What an empty star count does

A listing with no ratings looks untested, which on a review site is a negative signal rather than a neutral one. Visitors choose the rated option.

Three genuine reviews is enough to change that reading entirely.

Asking for reviews properly

Give each person one sentence to react to: what the product does and which part to mention. Blank-page requests produce "great app", which helps nobody.

Do not script the sentiment. A mixed review answered well is more persuasive than five identical five-stars.

Responding to criticism

Reply once, factually, in public. A handled complaint demonstrates that the product has real users and a real team.

Arguments in a review thread are the most damaging content on the page.

The week after publication

Check that the listing rendered, the link resolves, and the rating widget works. Review sites break these quietly.

Then leave it for a month and see whether the position moved.

What ratings are worth to you

Placement inside one directory, plus social proof you can point at. They do not transfer to search rankings and they do not accumulate authority.

Worth an afternoon of asking, not a campaign.

The rating count is a ranking input

On review-driven directories, the number of ratings often sorts the category as much as the average does. A single five-star rating ranks below five four-star ones.

Ask for volume and honesty, not for perfection.