Does StartupBase give a dofollow link?
On the 10 StartupBase listings we checked in October 2026: 10 of 10 nofollow. All listing pages were indexable.
Every listing we sampled marks the link to the product as nofollow. Search engines are told not to count it as an endorsement, so it is not a backlink in the SEO sense, though people can still click it.
None of the 10 listing pages carries a noindex directive, so the pages themselves can be indexed.
StartupBase
- Pages checked
- 10
- Product link
- 10 of 10 nofollow
- Listing pages
- all 10 indexable
- In their sitemap
- 4,461 listings
- Paid from
- $15
Read from the public HTML of listing pages taken evenly from the directory's sitemap. Not affiliated with StartupBase.
What StartupBase says
Quoted from their pricing page as read on 2026-10-18.
Free
“Free launches need the StartupBase badge on your site and wait their turn in the queue. Premium skips both: you choose the exact date, get a guaranteed homepage feature, and keep a permanent dofollow backlink, with no badge required.”
What we saw on each page
| Listing page | Link to the product | rel on that link | Page |
|---|---|---|---|
| /products/pynuxt | nofollow | nofollow noopener noreferrer | indexable |
| /products/elevoi | nofollow | nofollow noopener noreferrer | indexable |
| /products/coming-soon-products-presale | nofollow | nofollow noopener noreferrer | indexable |
| /products/yotru-resume-builder | nofollow | nofollow noopener noreferrer | indexable |
| /products/talk-to-agent | nofollow | nofollow noopener noreferrer | indexable |
| /products/red5-cloud | nofollow | nofollow noopener noreferrer | indexable |
| /products/eyelet | nofollow | nofollow noopener noreferrer | indexable |
| /products/codekickbot | nofollow | nofollow noopener noreferrer | indexable |
| /products/browsee | nofollow | nofollow noopener noreferrer | indexable |
| /products/slides-ai | nofollow | nofollow noopener noreferrer | indexable |
Check your own StartupBase listing
- Open your listing on StartupBase and view the page source.
- Find the link to your site and read its
relattribute:nofollow,sponsoredorugcmean it is not a followed link. - Search the source for
noindex. - Look again after any change on your side (removing a badge, a plan ending).
Or paste the listing into the free dofollow checker.
Out of date or wrong? Write to support@launchreceipt.com.
Listing somewhere that shows you the link up front
Every LaunchReceipt listing page shows the link it gives, whether the page is indexable, and when we last checked. Free listings are nofollow and say so; add our badge for dofollow.
Other directories we checked
- Dang.ai: 10 of 10 dofollow
- Fazier: 10 of 10 dofollow
- PeerPush: 10 of 10 dofollow
- Startup Fame: 10 of 10 dofollow
- Startups.fyi: 10 of 10 dofollow
- ToolFame: 9 of 9 dofollow
- Indie Hacker Stacks: 7 of 7 dofollow
- Dofollow.Tools: 9 of 10 dofollow, 1 nofollow
- Aura++: 8 of 10 dofollow, 2 nofollow
- Launchstag: 8 of 10 dofollow, 2 nofollow
- LaunchIgniter: 6 of 8 dofollow, 2 nofollow
- DevHunt: 6 of 10 dofollow, 4 nofollow
- Uneed: 6 of 10 dofollow, 4 nofollow
- Smol Launch: 5 of 10 dofollow, 5 nofollow
- tools.cafe: 5 of 10 nofollow, 5 dofollow
- BacklinkLog: 6 of 10 sponsored, 4 dofollow
- OpenHunts: 7 of 10 nofollow, 3 dofollow
- Futurepedia: 8 of 10 nofollow, 2 dofollow
- LaunchBuck: 8 of 10 nofollow, 2 dofollow
- LaunchBuff: 8 of 10 nofollow, 2 dofollow
- Sell With Boost: 8 of 9 nofollow, 1 dofollow
- TinyLaunch: 9 of 10 nofollow, 1 dofollow
- Awesome Indie: 9 of 9 nofollow
- Firsto: 9 of 9 nofollow
- Tiny Startups: 7 of 7 nofollow