In this blog, you will learn about the key sites I used in the early days to boost web site traffic for our startup.
Having spent the last 4 weeks experimenting with a number of marketing and promotional hacks to generate awareness for Prelo I have some feedback. yessss!
Weāve been looking at āawareness generationā. Essentially trying to find out how to get our product and website name in front of our ideal customers using directory listings.
A word of warning, you’ll need a great deal of patience to list your startup on a number of these directories. There just arenāt any standards when it comes to image dimensions and formats.
Before we get into that though, whatās front-of-mind for me at the moment is that weāre starting our investment raise forĀ Prelo this month. Yes, pitch decks, investor meetings and all the good stuff every founder loves to hate š„.
Iāll be sharing our fundraise journey right here too, so please stick around as we kick-off the process.
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Boost Website Traffic With This List
If youāre a founder bootstrapping your tech startup, you may just want to pull up a chair.
Perhaps youāve recently joined a āreally early-stageā startup to help your āfounder buddyā out with marketing, pull up a chair
I trawled the internet and found some pretty awesome software directories to list your startup on.
Iāll setup a GoFundMe, you can buy me coffees for the next 12 months.Ā
TheseĀ software directoriesĀ that’ll get you thousands of site visits per month at practically $0 in marketing.
Yes zero dollars, the actual sites we eventually got Prelo listed on are shown belowĀ
Prelo’s site listings
Beta List, Capterra, Get App, Good Firm, Business-Software, Launched .io, allStartups .info, Beta Page, F6S, Startuptabs, StartupBuffer, TrustRadius, AppSumo, SaaSworthyĀ and Startuptabs. š
4 Site listings that increased web traffic
AppSumo šŖ- It took me a while to get AppSumo setup, but it was one of the most rewarding listings we did in terms of traction and feedback. SaaS founders I strongly recommend this app exchange.(2000 additional visitors a day).
Patrick Morgan and Mac Markham are super awesome human beings to know at AppSumo.
Theyāve helped me to boost web site traffic immensely. They’re more than just a software listing website. Itās a marketplace for launching your tech startup at a massively discounted rate for immediate customer feedback and market traction.
1ļøā£ Beta ListĀ š- They showed us some love, and we got on the front page of their website and we were also included in their newsletter. We even got a ālikeā on twitter.
2ļøā£ BetaPageĀ š- They were extremely helpful, pushed us on twitter, retweeted our posts and gave us top spot on their newsletter. So we actually saw one of biggest results from this listing. BetaPage added approximately 100 users/day to our website.
3ļøā£ CapterraĀ š – Huge win! with the other sites we went from 0 – 1000 visitors pretty quickly. In fact we tried to setup G2 at the same time, unfortunately we just couldnāt complete the registration with G2. Iām still trying to get hold of a support person. š
4ļøā£ StartupBuffer š – Iāve had to update this newsletter hours before our scheduled release, just to say that the StartupBuffer folks are awesome. Weāve got a retweet, a like and weāve been featured #2 on your newsletter! We saw a spike after the newsletter went out too. One criticism I have any at all with StartupBuffer is that I would have liked to have seen their newsletters showing the main feature images for each Startup. The visuals wouldāve certainly helped our CTR.
SaaS founders relaunching their Startup

If youāre thinking about relaunching your Startup, perhapsĀ this amazing list would be more suited to you.
NoteĀ – Before you get all āgung-hoā and start listing, thereās a slight snag.
The image dimensions across all these listing sites are very different. Quite frankly, itās frustrating, no standards, and for most of the most part, they donāt have an easy way of notifying you if your startup listing failed.
Conclusion
Finally, if your Startup is in the SaaS or artificial intelligence space, we wanted to let you know that thereāll be no SaaS or artificial intelligence listed in any of the directories.
The closest I got when selecting our industry categorization was Software Technology, and Sales Automation. Remember, these are mainly free services so you canāt knock them.
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Until the next time!
Olu
Founder, Prelo
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