Two habits help your site rank: write often, and add your site to as many directories as you can. More good links raise your site's trust, and that helps everything rank higher.
Here is the plain-words version of why this works. Every site that links to yours is a small vote that says "this is real". Google counts those votes (it calls this authority), and a site with more good links ranks higher for everything it publishes. So each directory listing does two jobs: a few people find your app on the directory itself, and the link quietly makes every blog post you write rank a little higher. The second job is the valuable one.
Where to add your site
Launch sites (like Launching Next and F6S), "best apps" lists in your category, and community lists: subreddit wikis, awesome-lists, Discord resource channels.
How it builds up
More posts → more pages → more links → more trust → everything ranks better. Slow at first, then it speeds up.
This is the slowest channel in the course, and that is exactly why it works: most developers quit before it pays off. Nothing visible happens for a month or two. Then your posts start ranking slightly higher, which brings more readers, which brings more links. The wheel spins faster the longer you push it, and unlike ads, it never resets to zero.
Do it now: your first ten links
- 1Add a card to your Marketing Board for every launch site and list you can find for your category.
- 2Submit to two per week, ten minutes each. Move each card to Done when the listing goes live.
- 3When a "best apps" roundup in your niche doesn't include you, email the author. Many will add a genuinely good app for free.