Pay once, or show our badge
Two ways to unlock a listing
Every listing is free and sits where its Domain Rating puts it. Locked means the card in the ranking is blurred with the domain left out, and every link to the site is nofollow. $19 once, or our badge on your site, changes that. Paying does one thing more: it puts the listing in the draw for the Weekly pick, one card on the landing page every week.
- The card
- The blur comes off. Your screenshot, your title, your domain.
- The link
- rel="nofollow" comes off for good, so Google counts it.
- The rank
- Unchanged. Domain Rating orders the ranking, and we only read it.
Which one to pick
Either way the listing is published the moment you submit it. Paying unlocks it immediately. The free badge unlocks it after a 3–6 week review.
Pay once
$19
Paid listings are unlocked immediately after payment. Free badge unlock review takes 3–6 weeks.
- No badge on your site needed
- One-time payment
- 7 days in a Landing Page spot, on dates you pick
- In the Weekly pick draw: one paid listing featured on the landing page every week
Best if you want it settled.
Add our badge
Free
Free badge unlock review takes 3–6 weeks. Paid listings are unlocked immediately after payment.
- Published immediately in the ranking
- Unlocks within a 3–6 week review after badge placement
- Re-checked every 48 hours, in review too. Two misses a day apart lock it again (keep the badge online!)
Best if a link back is easier than a payment and the wait is fine. Once a listing has cleared review, a badge put back after a removal unlocks it again at the next check. The Weekly pick draw is for paid unlocks only.
How the badge works
Your dashboard has the HTML to paste, dark or light. We load your page the way a browser does and look for our badge inside a followed link to domainrating.lol. A text link, another image, or a rel of nofollow, sponsored or ugc does not count.
A check we cannot complete changes nothing. Only a clean miss counts.
Landing Page spots
10 spots sit on the landing page every day. $4 per UTC day, 3 days minimum, booked from your dashboard on the dates you pick. A spot is visibility, not position: the ranking is still Domain Rating and nothing else. We mark a spot’s link sponsored, not followed.
Where to unlock
Unlocking happens on the listing, so you can see exactly which card you are paying for. Open yours from the ranking and the $19 button is there.
Stripe handles the payment. We never see the card, and there is nothing to cancel afterwards.
What it does not buy
- A better position
- The order is Ahrefs Domain Rating, descending. We re-read it daily and print whatever it says, drops included.
- A subscription
- $19 is charged once. Landing Page days are bought separately, and they do not change rank either.
- A turn on demand
- The Weekly pick is drawn, not booked. Every paid listing gets a turn before any gets a second, and a badge unlock is not in the draw. A listing in a Landing Page spot when the draw comes round keeps its place for the next one.
- Editorial review
- Every listing is published the moment it is submitted. Free badge unlock review takes 3–6 weeks. Paid listings are unlocked immediately after payment. Neither path buys a better position or editorial preference: rank is Domain Rating alone.
Domain Rating by Ahrefs. We read it, we do not set it, and nothing sold on this page changes it.