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.
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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.
An independent search engine that indexes submitted sites. Add your URL for free to get crawled and listed in its results.
A topic-based aggregator of blogs and news sources. Getting your feed added gives a dofollow listing.
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.
A visual bookmark directory of popular websites. Getting added gives a dofollow link and steady referral clicks.
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.
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 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 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 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.
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 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 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.