# ShipDR

> Backlink tracker for directory submissions. Makers submit their product to
> startup and AI directories; ShipDR verifies every listing (live, dofollow,
> indexable), catches backlinks that drop or flip to nofollow, and charts the
> site's Ahrefs Domain Rating history. $10 one-time per website, no
> subscription.

Key facts:
- The directory pool is audited by hand and ranked by maker-proven results:
  verified live listings from real products, machine-read, never self-reported.
  Directories cannot pay to be listed or ranked.
- Verification reads the listing page itself: backlink presence, rel value,
  indexability. JS-rendered pages are checked in a real browser. Checks run on
  a risk-based schedule (hottest backlinks every 6 hours) and on demand.
- ShipDR never promises that Domain Rating will rise: DR is Ahrefs' metric.
  It verifies the work and records what happened.

Pages:
- https://shipdr.dev/ : product overview, live directory teaser, pricing
- https://shipdr.dev/directories : the directory ledger (three rows free)
- https://shipdr.dev/pricing : $10 once per website, FAQ
- https://shipdr.dev/tools : index of all ten free checkers
- https://shipdr.dev/tools/hreflang-checker : free tool, validates hreflang
  tags and fetches every alternate to verify the return links most sets miss
- https://shipdr.dev/tools/noindex-checker : free tool, reads a page's meta
  robots, meta googlebot and X-Robots-Tag to say whether Google may index it
- https://shipdr.dev/tools/dofollow-link-checker : free tool, fetches a page
  that links to yours and reports the anchor's rel (dofollow, nofollow, ugc,
  sponsored) plus whether the page itself is indexable
- https://shipdr.dev/tools/domain-rating-checker : free tool, looks up any
  domain's Ahrefs Domain Rating (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)
- https://shipdr.dev/tools/canonical-checker : free tool, reads a page's
  canonical from both the tag and the Link response header, and flags
  conflicting, cross-domain or missing ones
- https://shipdr.dev/tools/meta-tag-checker : free tool, reads the whole head
  (title, description, robots, canonical, viewport, lang, social tags) and
  previews how the result reads
- https://shipdr.dev/tools/sitemap-checker : free tool, validates an XML
  sitemap, checks the robots.txt declaration, and catches lastmod dates that
  are build stamps rather than real edits
- https://shipdr.dev/tools/open-graph-checker : free tool, reads og and
  twitter tags, previews the share card, and fetches the og:image to catch
  broken ones
- https://shipdr.dev/tools/redirect-chain-checker : free tool, walks a
  redirect chain hop by hop and reports each status, destination and
  X-Robots-Tag, including hops that ask not to be followed
- https://shipdr.dev/tools/robots-txt-checker : free tool, parses robots.txt
  the way Google does (most specific group, longest path, Allow wins ties) and
  reports per crawler whether a path may be fetched, search and AI crawlers
  alike (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot)

## Guides

- https://shipdr.dev/guides : index of the guides below
- https://shipdr.dev/guides/directory-submission-seo : what a directory listing
  is actually worth, the four failure modes that make most submissions produce
  nothing, the four checks that decide whether one is worth doing, and where the
  channel stops paying
- https://shipdr.dev/guides/dofollow-vs-nofollow : dofollow is the absence of a
  rel rather than a value you write; why nofollow is not a bad backlink and is
  only a bad trade when a homepage slot paid for it; and why a dofollow link on
  a noindex or robots-blocked page still passes nothing
- https://shipdr.dev/guides/how-long-backlinks-take : the five stages between a
  submission and a link that counts (submitted, published, crawled, indexed,
  counted), what stalls each one, and why "how long" is usually the wrong
  question
- https://shipdr.dev/guides/link-equity : what link equity is (a chain of
  permissions rather than a substance), the four conditions a link must meet
  before it passes anything, why a break is total, and the redirect case that
  looks like a clean dofollow link
- https://shipdr.dev/guides/lost-backlinks : the four ways a backlink dies
  (page gone, link removed, rel changed, page stopped being readable), why the
  quiet three are worse than the loud one, and how to catch them without a paid
  backlink index
- https://shipdr.dev/guides/domain-rating-vs-domain-authority : DR is Ahrefs,
  DA is Moz, Google uses neither; why the same site scores differently on each,
  and why both are easy to inflate with reciprocal links
- https://shipdr.dev/guides/rank-on-chatgpt : answer engines have no rankings
  and publish no factors; what is checkable is crawler access per agent (GPTBot
  vs OAI-SearchBot, Google-Extended is not a crawler), indexability, and whether
  a self-contained answer can be lifted from the page
- https://shipdr.dev/guides/ai-crawlers : every AI crawler is a separate name
  with a separate job (GPTBot trains, other agents fetch at answer time,
  Google-Extended is not a crawler); the most-specific-group rule that makes
  files say what nobody intended; and the trade behind blocking each, stated as
  a judgement rather than a best practice
- https://shipdr.dev/guides/toxic-backlinks : toxicity scores are vendor
  opinions, not search engine signals; random spam links pointing at you are
  ignored; the only two cases where disavow is warranted are a manual action and
  links you built or bought yourself
- https://shipdr.dev/guides/backlink-outreach : what comes after directory
  submissions stop paying; who is worth asking and why; and the check to run on
  a target page before writing, since plenty of pages could never have given a
  link that counts
- https://shipdr.dev/guides/link-exchanges : why the limit on reciprocal links
  and badge swaps is a share of your dofollow profile rather than a count, what
  a swap costs that a one-way link does not, and the three things that must all
  be true for one to earn anything (dofollow, indexable, crawlable)
- https://shipdr.dev/guides/how-many-backlinks : why no number of backlinks can
  be given honestly, why referring domains beat raw link counts, the four things
  that actually decide it, and how to tell whether the links you already count
  are real

Contact: support@shipdr.dev