How It Works - Liveadvertise

1. How Ranking Works

Sites are ranked mainly by the outbound clicks this directory sends them: every Visit button on the board is one counted click, de-duplicated per visitor so refreshing cannot inflate a score. Traffic is by far the biggest factor.

Community signals also help: signed-up upvotes, verified reviews from users who actually visited the site, and engagement quality. These will not beat traffic on their own, but they separate great sites from good ones.

We do not use subjective reviews. Every review on Liveadvertise is verified — only users who have clicked through to a site can leave one.

Outbound Clicks: the clicks we send from this board to your site. One click means one visitor inside a 24-hour window, so refreshes and repeat clicks cannot inflate your rank.
Upvotes: Only members with a confirmed email address can upvote, and each member gets one upvote per platform. Anonymous votes score nothing.
Reviews: A member can only review a platform they visited in the last 30 days — that is a Verified Visit review. One review per member, and it counts only once a moderator publishes it.
Engagement: How long visitors actually stay after a verified visit. Measurement is not live yet, so every platform currently receives the same neutral baseline.

Which of the two traffic numbers ranks the board is a single administrator setting: outbound clicks (the clicks we send you, published as "Visitors we sent this site") or verified visitors (the pixel count). Only one of them is scored at a time; the other stays a published statistic, never a hidden one.

2. Visitor Tracking & Badges

The visitor tracking pixel is one of the two signals, not a condition of being listed. It is an invisible 1x1 image you can paste into your website: every time a page carrying it is opened we record a visitor, and it is that number — the traffic reaching your own site — that the board is scored on whenever verified visitors are the selected signal. When outbound clicks are the signal, the pixel is simply a statistic you can still install and read.

To be exact about what it counts: the pixel measures the visitors to your site, not the clicks Liveadvertise sends you. Repeat views from the same address inside a 24-hour window count once, so reloading your own page can never move your rank.

Both snippets below carry the same unique verification token — either one identifies your website to us. They are available to a claimed listing: after you sign up and claim the site, both are waiting in your dashboard install guide. Neither is required to keep a listing live or ranked.

Option A: Visitor Pixel

An invisible 1x1 image that counts the unique visitors to your site. Paste it in your footer, or just before </body>.

Option B: Live Rank Badge

A 200 x 48 badge showing your current position, repainted on our side every few hours. Display only — it adds no score.

Anti-Cheat Active: one visitor means one IP address inside a 24-hour window. Rapidly refreshing your own page cannot inflate your rank, and the badge is decorative — installing it neither helps nor hurts your score.

3. Submitting a New Platform

To add your site to Liveadvertise:

Sign in and open the submission wizard from your dashboard — a free account is required to announce a site.
Enter your root URL (for example https://yourbrand.com). Only the homepage of a root domain is accepted — subdomains and deep links are rejected.
Write a title of up to 60 characters, a pitch of up to 250, and pick the category the site belongs in.
Upload a wide banner image — a 1200 x 600 shape is a good example, up to 2 MB.
Submit. A person reviews the listing, and once it is approved it appears on the board and competes on the traffic that signal measures. The tracking pixels and badge snippets are optional, and they are waiting in your dashboard install guide once you have claimed the listing.

4. Announcing and Verifying Your Site

Every site on LA Rank is submitted by its owner. Announcing takes a few minutes: enter your site's address, prove it is yours, and add the details visitors will see. Announcing is free.

To prove ownership we show you a token and ask you to publish a small text file at the root of your domain, named exactly topbest-verify.txt, containing that token. Our server fetches the file — a meta tag will not do — and the moment it matches, your listing is verified.

Once ownership is verified you can install the free tracking pixel. Sites that add it earn the green Verified badge; listings without it are still shown and still ranked, marked No pixel. The file name is an older identifier kept exactly as it is so domains that already publish it keep working; the wizard always shows the name and token to use.

Dofollow outbound links

Outbound links follow the listing, not a price list. Once the owner has been verified, every outbound link to that site is a followed link — on the listing page, the boards, the cards and the Featured rail at once. There is no upgrade to buy and no box for anyone to tick: verifying ownership is the switch.

What claiming unlocks

Analytics dashboard — clicks out, traffic in and rank history.
Reviews dashboard — see every review and dispute the ones that break the rules.
Badge embed code — the live rank SVG for your site.
Priority in ties — level on score, the claimed listing ranks first.
Featured Ads — buy placements from your dashboard.

Claiming is free and entirely optional. An unclaimed listing is already on the board and already ranked; verification only unlocks the five owner tools above.

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