Indie Web & Blogs
Indie web and small web directories are curated homes for personal blogs, hand-built sites, and the open web. Submitting your blog or site to these directories and independent search engines helps real readers discover your writing and earns a genuine dofollow link from a like-minded community.
The flagship instance of the open-source, federated social network. Create a profile in the fediverse and link back to your own site.
Post your product and milestones to a community of founders. Great for feedback, accountability, and a profile backlink.
Kagi's Small Web surfaces fresh posts from personal blogs and independent sites. Getting your blog into the Small Web feed sends curious readers your way.
A business listing directory for local and online companies. Create a free profile with your contact details and website.
A directory of blogs and businesses across many categories. The free tier asks you to add their badge to your site for review, with a paid option to skip the wait.
An independent search engine that indexes submitted sites. Add your URL for free to get crawled and listed in its results.
A community-powered, human-curated search engine and web directory. Submit any site for a free listing and a dofollow link, reviewed by real people rather than an algorithm.
The volunteer-edited successor to the DMOZ Open Directory, sorting millions of sites by topic. A listing in the right category earns a dofollow link from one of the web's oldest and most trusted directories.
A search engine for the classic, hand-made web of personal pages and hobby sites. Submit a page to be indexed and found by people who miss the old internet.
A general web directory accepting free regular submissions, with paid featured placement available.
An independent search engine that favors small, text-first, non-commercial sites. Getting indexed puts your site in front of people deliberately seeking the human web.
A general web directory organized by category. Free submission of your site.
A long-running general web directory organized by topic. Free basic submission, with paid tiers for faster review.
A general web directory sorted into categories. Free listings are reviewed slowly, with a paid fast-track option.
A hand-curated blogroll of personal blogs across every topic. Submit your blog for a free listing and a dofollow link in a directory built to help readers rediscover independent writing.
A community-maintained directory of personal websites belonging to Hacker News users. Add yours to reach a technical audience with a dofollow link.
A small independent search engine for the open web. Submit your URL for free to join its crawl queue.
A categorized web directory. Free listings are accepted, with paid and faster-review options.
A general web directory. The free tier requires a reciprocal link back, with paid options to skip it.
A curated index of independent websites and personal corners of the internet. A place to submit your indie site and find others building outside the big platforms.
A classic general web directory. Free regular listing, with a small one-time fee for featured placement.
A directory of personal /top4 pages, where people share a ranked list of their top three favorites and an honorable mention on any topic. Add your /top4 page for a free listing and a dofollow link.
A categorized web directory with a free listing tier. Paid premium placement is also available.
A classic categorized web directory. Submit a free regular listing, or pay for featured placement.
Discover the indie web one blog post at a time with a random-blog button. Suggest your blog for a free listing and a dofollow link to your homepage.
A topic-organized web directory with a free regular listing tier alongside paid premium and featured options.
A general web directory with a free listing tier and optional paid featured upgrades.
A live feed of fresh posts from independent blogs across the web. Submit your blog to appear in the feed with a dofollow link to your homepage.
A curated blog reader and search engine for high-quality independent blogs. Submit a blog to be read, indexed, and linked for a niche audience of readers.
A classic general web and business directory with per-listing pages.
A curated website and tool directory with upvotes. Free submission after sign-in, with a paid premium tier.
A directory of personal blogs run by Hacker News users. A simple way to get a developer and founder blog discovered, with a dofollow link to your site.
A classic general web directory with a category tree. Free site submission.