I gave one AI tool my homepage banner for 6 days. Here's exactly what it got.
I run an AI tools directory and I've never seen anyone publish what a placement actually delivers. So here's mine, with real numbers.
WHAT ONE PLACEMENT PRODUCED
110 clicks in the first 6 days. 106 of them from the homepage banner alone. Not impressions, clicks — people who landed on the tool's own site.
WHAT THE TRAFFIC UNDERNEATH IT LOOKS LIKE
July: 1.26M Google impressions, 3,230 clicks. That single month produced about 71% of every click the site has recorded since launching in March.
314 ChatGPT citations, 127 Copilot, 468 total across six AI engines. DR 30, 799 referring domains, $0 ever spent on ads or backlinks.
THE PART THAT MATTERS FOR YOUR TOOL
I log crawler traffic by user agent. Over six days: ChatGPT hit the site 28,842 times. Googlebot came 1,744 times. That's 16 to 1.
When someone asks ChatGPT "what's the best AI tool for X," it's pulling from pages like these. A listing isn't just a backlink anymore — it's presence in the retrieval layer that's increasingly deciding what gets recommended.
And new listings get indexed by Google in about 24 hours.
WHICH PAGES ACTUALLY CONVERT
Not the ones you'd expect. One of my explainer pages ranks at position 5.7 with 398,000 impressions and a click rate that rounds to zero. A comparison page ranks at 4.7 and converts at 6%. One position apart, 150× the click rate.
So if you list, the thing worth having is a spot on a comparison page against your competitors — not a directory row nobody scrolls to. Someone searching "your tool vs their tool" is thirty seconds from a decision.
THE OFFER
Listing is free: https://aitoolsrecap.com/JoinUs.aspx
You get a public listing page, eligibility for community reviews, and indexing usually inside a day. No card, no trial, no catch. Paid tiers exist if you want comparison placement or editorial coverage, but the free one is genuinely free and most tools here are on it.
If you're building something in AI and want a comparison page pointing at you rather than at a competitor, send me the URL.
Happy to answer anything about the numbers above. I publish these monthly whether they're good or not.
