Notes on finding and listing useful websites
Freeboard publishes short, practical notes about ownership verification, directory traffic and choosing a listing. These are written from the directory’s own data and public rules.
How to choose a useful directory listing
What to check before you submit a website, and which signals are worth your time.
Read guide →MEASUREMENTWhat a directory click count can tell you
How to use Freeboard click data without confusing it with traffic, sales or search ranking.
Read guide →Freeboard currently has 88 approved listings and has measured 3,086 outbound clicks from the directory. The homepage deliberately highlights only the 15 approved listings with the most measured clicks. This is not a popularity claim for the wider web; it is a count of clicks sent from Freeboard.
A discovered domain can be useful as a lead for its operator, but it is weak evidence for a visitor. The owner has not confirmed the description, the destination may have changed, and Freeboard has not endorsed it. That is why unclaimed claim candidates are labelled plainly and excluded from search indexing until their owner completes verification.
A click count records a person following Freeboard’s outbound route. It does not reveal a listed site’s analytics, sales, search rankings, or quality. It can help visitors see which approved listings received attention from this directory, but it is not a score of merit and does not determine whether a site may be listed.
The most valuable improvements come from owners: a precise description, the right category, a working destination, and corrections when a product changes. We will publish future notes only when we have a real first-party observation to explain—not to manufacture fresh content or make unsupported traffic claims.