Directory and discovery guides for founders.
Practical research on where to list your product, how links pass authority, and how people and agents discover what you build.
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Three useful starting points before you open the full library.
Mydentify Reborn: A New Year, a New Kind of Directory
Mydentify began as a web directory in 2004. Its 2026 rebuild returns to that useful foundation—with better data, clearer intent, and pages both people and agents can understand.
How to Choose Startup Directories Worth Your Time
Choose startup directories by audience fit, listing quality, submission cost, link behavior, durability, and likely return. Use DR as context—not the decision.
Domain Rating vs PageRank: What Each Metric Actually Measures
Domain Rating summarizes a website’s backlink profile in Ahrefs. PageRank is Google’s page-level link system. They overlap conceptually, but they are not interchangeable.
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GPTBot vs OAI-SearchBot: Which Should You Allow?
GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot have different jobs. Learn what each crawler does, what robots.txt can control, and how to test a clear policy.
Which AI Tool Directories Are Worth Your Time?
Compare AI tool directories by fit, public pages, link evidence, and usefulness—not Domain Rating alone.
How to Compare AI Model API Costs
A plain-language method for estimating AI API spend, comparing models fairly, and checking an estimate against real usage before you change production traffic.
Anthropic and Claude Watermarks Explained
What the Claude watermark means, what Anthropic has actually disclosed, and how to check pasted text for observable AI artifacts without treating a detector as proof of authorship.
Why Your Indie Product Isn’t Getting Search Traffic
A focused diagnosis for indie hackers and bootstrapped founders: check whether Google can reach, read, understand, and discover your product before writing more content.
What Cloudflare Wallets Mean If You Sell to AI Agents
Cloudflare Wallets help agent buyers spend. Sellers still need a working x402 endpoint, a clear payee, and a public product page agents can read.
How an AI Agent Can Sponsor Mydentify’s Site Rails
A practical guide for AI agents and their operators to evaluate, prepare, approve, and purchase a labeled Mydentify sponsor rail placement.
Traditional SEO vs AI Discovery: What Product Builders Should Do
Traditional SEO and AI discovery share crawlability, authority, and clear content. AI retrieval adds answer extraction, entity consistency, citation monitoring, and new machine-readable surfaces.
How AI Agents Discover and Understand Products on the Web
AI agents discover products through crawlable pages, search and retrieval systems, structured entities, public documentation, links, feeds, and emerging agent-oriented conventions.
Why Small Development Teams Need a Distribution Plan
Small development teams often ship consistently but leave distribution unowned. A lightweight release and link-building plan turns product work into lasting discovery.
Why Mydentify Was Rebuilt for People and AI Agents
Mydentify pairs useful human pages with structured records, evidence, canonical URLs, JSON-LD, feeds, Markdown, and agent discovery files—without promising citations.
How to Increase Domain Rating Without Chasing a Number
Increase Domain Rating by earning followed links from relevant referring domains, reclaiming lost links, and publishing assets worth citing—not by purchasing metric inflation.
Product Distribution: How Software Gets Found and Chosen
Product distribution connects useful software with the people who need it. Learn how discovery, trust, access, and repeatable channels work together.
Free vs Paid Startup Directories: Where Should You Submit?
Free and paid startup directories can both be worthwhile. Compare the audience, listing, editorial process, permanence, disclosure, and total cost before choosing.
Startup Directory Submission Checklist for Founders
Prepare consistent product assets, choose the right category, track every submission, verify the live listing, and measure what each directory actually returns.
Link Building for Solopreneurs: A Simple Weekly System
A practical link-building routine for one-person businesses that need durable discovery without mass outreach, daily posting, or an expensive SEO team.
Link Building for Startups: A Practical First 90 Days
A focused 90-day link-building plan for startups: establish owned citations, earn relevant editorial links, use directories selectively, and measure outcomes beyond DR.
Do Directory Backlinks Help SEO? A Quality-First Answer
Directory backlinks can help when the directory is relevant, maintained, indexable, and useful to its audience. Bulk links from indiscriminate directories are a different proposition.
Dofollow vs Nofollow Links: What Founders Need to Know
A followed link can pass link equity; nofollow, sponsored, and UGC attributes qualify the relationship. Every useful link does not need to be followed.
Domain Rating vs PageRank: What Each Metric Actually Measures
Domain Rating summarizes a website’s backlink profile in Ahrefs. PageRank is Google’s page-level link system. They overlap conceptually, but they are not interchangeable.
Distribution for Builders: What to Do After You Ship
Shipping is only the first half of the work. A simple distribution routine helps builders earn attention, useful links, and a steady path to new users.
What Is PageRank? How Google’s Link System Works
PageRank is a page-level system originally designed to estimate importance from links. Google still uses PageRank concepts, but the old public Toolbar score is gone.
What Is Domain Rating? Ahrefs DR Explained Without the Hype
Domain Rating is Ahrefs’ estimate of a website’s backlink-profile strength on a logarithmic 0–100 scale. It is useful for comparison—but it is not a Google score.
How to Choose Startup Directories Worth Your Time
Choose startup directories by audience fit, listing quality, submission cost, link behavior, durability, and likely return. Use DR as context—not the decision.
Why Web Directories Are Making a Comeback in 2026
Useful web directories are returning because curated categories, durable listings, and structured records solve discovery problems that search results and social feeds often leave open.
Mydentify Reborn: A New Year, a New Kind of Directory
Mydentify began as a web directory in 2004. Its 2026 rebuild returns to that useful foundation—with better data, clearer intent, and pages both people and agents can understand.