Link submission guidelines
Submitting a link is free. Sifte invoices only accepted links for the selected listing term. Monthly listing is $9.90/month per approved link, yearly listing is $99/year per approved link, and multi-year prepayment can lock the current yearly rate.
What Sifte reviews
Sifte is a hosted search directory and link verification platform. Website owners submit URLs for manual human review. Sifte verifies ownership and evaluates submitted links under published quality and eligibility standards.
Review process
- Submit URLs, contact information, ownership proof, category, and any notes that help review.
- Sifte checks ownership, relevance, safety, spam risk, duplication, quality, and category fit.
- Accepted links receive an invoice for the requested listing term.
- Rejected links are not invoiced and are not charged.
- Approved listings publish in Sifte after the invoice is paid.
Eligibility standards
- The submitted URL must be controlled by you or by an organization you are authorized to represent.
- The page must be safe, legal, reachable, and relevant to the requested phrase or category.
- The page must not impersonate another party or mislead users about ownership, pricing, claims, or affiliation.
- The page must not be primarily spam, malware, cloaking, deceptive redirects, scraped content, or low quality doorway content.
- The page must fit Sifte's search and quality criteria. Payment does not buy higher placement.
Listing fees
Monthly listing is $9.90/month per approved link. Yearly listing is $99/year per approved link, which saves $19.80/year compared with paying monthly, equal to 16.7% or two months free. Accepted links can also be prepaid for 2, 3, or 5 years to lock the current yearly listing rate for that prepaid term.
See the pricing page for current listing terms.
CSV format
Bulk CSV submissions can include these columns: url, title, phrase, category, description, notes, and ownership_proof. If there is no header row, Sifte treats the first column as the URL.
Keep CSV uploads under 1 MB and submit no more than 250 links at once.
No guarantees
Sifte does not guarantee traffic, clicks, sales, leads, rankings in third party search engines, or placement in Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Perplexity, or any other third party search or AI system. Sifte rankings are based on Sifte's search and quality criteria, not simply on payment amount.