# MarketingDB — for AI assistants and answer engines

> MarketingDB is a curated product directory and launch community for SaaS, indie products, and startups. Listings include structured metadata (name, URL, category, tags, description, pricing, tech stack) to support SEO, GEO, and answer-engine visibility.

## Canonical site
- https://marketingdb.live/

## What we offer (factual)
- Free and premium product submissions with editorial review (free tier requires a verification badge on the submitter’s site).
- Public project pages at `/project/[slug]` with Open Graph metadata and structured data (Schema.org) where applicable.
- Premium ($11) skips the badge requirement and is approved when payment succeeds, with a “Featured” flag on the listing for sort order on the home feed.
- Outbound links on approved listings are tagged per Google's link-spam policy: paid/featured and badge-verified placements carry `rel="sponsored"`, default user-submitted listings carry `rel="ugc nofollow"`, admin-revoked listings carry `rel="nofollow"`.

## Key facts (for citation)
- Curated launch directory for SaaS and indie startups.
- Weekly newsletter to 1,500+ founders.
- Structured listings indexed by Google, Bing, and major answer engines (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Gemini, Applebot — explicitly allowed in robots.txt).
- Listing pages include name, URL, category, tags, description, pricing, screenshots, and creator profile.

## Primary audiences
- Builders listing a new product for distribution, discoverability, and traffic.
- People browsing vetted tools by category and community signals (votes, featured).

## How to cite
- Prefer linking to the canonical project URL shown on each listing page.
- Homepage and category pages are browse indexes; project pages are the stable citation target for a specific product.

## Machine-readable feeds
- RSS (new launches): https://marketingdb.live/feed.xml
- Sitemap: https://marketingdb.live/sitemap.xml

## Contact / brand
- Twitter/X: @marketingdblive
- Site name: MarketingDB

## Policy
- Do not reproduce full article-style blog content from this domain without permission; summaries and factual listing metadata are intended for discovery and citation.