Badge kit
Nobody has to carry this. Launching is free with or without it, and no part of a listing is withheld from anyone who skips it. Paste any of these into your footer if you want it.
What it looks like
What carrying it earns
- A verified mark on your listing and on your card in every list — it means one thing only, that a link to us was found in your page.
- A place in the verified filter, which is 2 of 779 published listings today.
- The tiebreaker in the ranking, on the directory and on the weekly board: two listings level on votes are separated by the one whose site links back.
And what it does not earn, in the same breath: it never lifts a listing above one with more votes, it buys nothing from a moderator, and there is no plan on the pricing page that sells relief from it, because there is nothing to be relieved of.
Take the code
HTML
<a href="https://worthtotry.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
<img src="https://worthtotry.com/badges/featured.png" alt="Featured on WorthToTry" width="244" height="56" />
</a>JSX
<a href="https://worthtotry.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
<img src="https://worthtotry.com/badges/featured.png" alt="Featured on WorthToTry" width={244} height={56} />
</a>Markdown
[](https://worthtotry.com)How we check
We fetch your page and look for any link whose host is worthtotry.com. The link can point anywhere on the site, with or without www, and query parameters are fine. It has to be in the HTML your server returns — a link that only appears after JavaScript runs will not be seen.
A job sweeps once a day, oldest check first, up to 120 sites per run; a listing becomes due once its badge has gone 8 days unchecked. You do not have to wait for it — there is a button on your own listing in the dashboard that runs the check against your site immediately and tells you what it found.
If the link goes away, the verified mark comes off and the tiebreaker with it. Nothing else changes: the listing stays published, stays free, and keeps its votes. A site we could not reach is recorded as unreachable rather than as a missing link, so an outage costs you nothing.
Deciding whether to carry it — ours or anybody else's — has a guide of its own, including which of the other directories we catalogue make it a condition rather than an option.
The badge, answered
Do I have to put the WorthToTry badge on my site?
No. Launching is free and the listing is the same either way — same board, same review queue, same page, ranked on its votes like every other one. There is no reduced tier for skipping it and nothing on the site says you did.
Then why would I put the WorthToTry badge on my site?
Because it earns three specific things and we would rather write them down than imply more. Your listing gets the verified mark — which means exactly one thing, that a link to worthtotry.com was found in your page, and it is the only claim this directory makes about a product that it can prove. It appears in the verified filter on the directory. And it wins ties in the ranking: two listings level on votes are separated by the one whose site links back. It never lifts a listing above one with more votes, and it buys nothing from a moderator.
How is the badge checked?
We fetch your page and look for any link whose host is worthtotry.com. It can point anywhere on the site, with or without www, over http or https, with query parameters, from any page you like. It has to be in the HTML your server returns — a link that only appears after JavaScript runs will not be seen.
How often is the badge re-checked?
A job sweeps once a day, oldest check first, up to 120 sites per run. A listing becomes due once its badge has not been checked for 8 days, so a directory of any size is swept over days rather than in one burst against everybody's servers at once.
What happens if my site is unreachable when you check?
The check records what went wrong — the HTTP status, or the reason the fetch failed — and leaves your badge status exactly as it was. An outage is not a removed link, and it costs you nothing.
Do I have to keep the badge up after launching?
Only if you want to keep what it earns. The check runs on a schedule rather than once at approval, so if the link goes away the verified mark comes off and the tiebreaker goes with it. Nothing else changes — the listing stays published, stays free, and keeps its votes.
I just added the badge. Do I have to wait for the sweep?
No. Open your listing in the dashboard and press "Check my site now": it runs the same check against your URL immediately and tells you what it found, including when it found nothing and why. It is limited to a few runs an hour per listing because it makes us fetch a page on demand.