# Free with badge and Featured listing plans > List your website on a reviewed public page with a direct link. Free with a badge, or Featured for $9 once. Canonical: https://usefulshelf.co/pricing A reviewed public page that explains your product and links directly to it. ## Free with badge $0 with our badge. Add our visible badge for directory priority above other free listings. We verify it before publishing and check it daily. - A public page that explains your product. - A category placement so people can browse for it. - A dofollow link to your website. - No listing fee or subscription. - Keep our verified badge visible to stay listed. [List with a badge](https://usefulshelf.co/submit?tier=free) ## Featured $9 one-time payment. Pay first, then we review your app. After approval, your listing appears before free plans. No badge to install. - A reviewed public page for your product. - A dofollow link to your website. - Listed before free plans on home and category pages. - No badge required. - Pay once, with no subscription or renewal fees. [Get featured](https://usefulshelf.co/submit?tier=featured) ## What every plan includes Every plan gives your product a page people and discovery tools can read. Your reviewed listing includes clear product details, a category and structured data for search engines and AI search tools. Live listings also appear in directory search and are available through our public API and connected MCP agents. All plans require review approval. Free with badge requires a verified visible badge; Featured requires confirmed payment. No plan guarantees traffic, indexing, rankings, Domain Rating increases or AI recommendations. Directory order is Featured, then badge-verified free listings. Within each group, newer published listings appear first. Your exact position can change; the $9 plan does not reserve an advertising slot. ## A homepage ad. $99 for 30 days. Give your live app one of three sponsored cards shown across every public page, matched to relevant categories first, with your name, tagline and a direct website link. A separate placement for a focused promotion. [Explore homepage ads](https://usefulshelf.co/advertise) ## Questions and answers ### What do I need for a free listing? A free listing needs a visible badge on your website, a working app and review approval. You can save your submission first, then install and verify the badge before publication. Daily checks make that listing private without advance warning if the badge is missing. Restore and verify it, or upgrade to Featured. ### What do I get for $9? For $9 once, you get a public listing without a badge and directory priority above free plans. Its website link is dofollow. Review approval and confirmed payment are required. There is no subscription or scheduled expiry while the listing remains eligible and UsefulShelf operates. Your exact position can change; this is not an ad slot. ### How is a homepage ad different? A homepage ad is a separate $99 purchase for one of three labeled sponsored positions for 30 days. The $9 listing does not reserve one of those positions. ### Will a listing increase my Domain Rating or search rankings? No increase is guaranteed. Featured and badge-verified free listings use dofollow website links. Ahrefs and search engines determine their own metrics and results. ### When do I pay? For Featured, pay after saving your listing and before automated review. Once payment is confirmed, we review your app. If automatic review cannot approve it, your listing stays paid and private for manual approval. If checkout is interrupted, return to your saved listing to retry. ### How do the listing plans differ? Featured listings appear before free listings and need no badge. Free listings need a verified badge. Both plans use dofollow website links and get the same public listing page, category and structured data. ### Is there a subscription? No. The free plan costs nothing, and Featured is a one-time payment with no renewal. Homepage ads are a separate $99 booking for 30 days, with no automatic renewal. ### How fast is review? Review is automatic. Clear, useful products can be approved in seconds. Restricted or uncertain content is not approved; interrupted checks stay private and can be retried from My tools or MCP. ### Can a paid listing be rejected? Yes. Payment never bypasses review. Placeholders, unfinished templates, thin landing pages, spam, scams, adult content, gambling and crypto are not accepted. ### Does my website need AI features or an MCP server? No. UsefulShelf is for useful apps, SaaS products and websites across our categories. Your product does not need AI features or its own MCP server. Submit through the website form, or use a connected agent if you prefer. All submissions must pass review. ### Can a listing help my website get discovered and cited in AI search? A listing gives AI search tools another public source about your product to discover, read and potentially cite. It is an opportunity, not a guarantee of citations or recommendations. Each service decides what to crawl, index and use in its answers. Custom agents can also query our search API or connect through MCP. All plans include the same readable listing page. ### What does a crawler see on my listing page? Your app name, tagline, description, category, tags and website link are in the server-rendered HTML, along with SoftwareApplication structured data. Crawlers do not need to run JavaScript to read them. ### Is my listing in the sitemap and llms.txt? Live listings are added to our app sitemap, and recent ones to llms.txt. Private, pending and rejected listings are left out of sitemaps, search and machine-readable feeds. llms.txt is a convenience for readers, not a replacement for HTML pages or sitemaps. ### Which crawlers can read UsefulShelf? Our robots.txt allows public pages for all crawlers, including AI search crawlers such as OAI-SearchBot and Claude-SearchBot. Training crawlers such as GPTBot and ClaudeBot serve a separate purpose; robots.txt notes the difference and sets no separate training restriction. ### How can AI agents query the directory? Agents can read public app pages, call the search API at /api/search, or connect to our MCP server and use search_apps to browse or filter every public app with its description, logo, category and tags. All three return live listings only.