Acid Tools

Acid Tools is an online tools directory offering a free permanent listing in exchange for displaying its badge on your website. Its paid packages extend the service by submitting products to networks of other directories.

What’s included? ¶

The Acid Tools listing itself is free. Once approved, it provides:

• A permanent listing on Acid Tools
• One dofollow backlink
• Placement across relevant pages and categories on the directory
• Potential homepage placement
• A listing in exchange for adding an Acid Tools badge and backlink to your homepage

The paid packages are primarily submission services rather than upgrades to the Acid Tools listing itself. Acid Tools submits the product to other directories within its wider network.

What do you need to supply? ¶

The submission process includes a details button through which the Acid Tools badge can be obtained. After placing the badge on the submitted homepage, Acid Tools checks that it is present before allowing the free listing to proceed.

Results ¶

The Acid Tools submission process was straightforward and used Google single sign-on. The main additional requirement was adding an Acid Tools badge to the Truly Analytics homepage, creating a backlink to Acid Tools before the free directory backlink was provided.

The Truly Analytics listing was subsequently found by Google across five Acid Tools pages. These included:

• The Acid Tools homepage
• An alternative product listing page
• Three AI tools pages

Truly Analytics was still visible on the Acid Tools homepage when checked, with a complete backlink to the site. The listing had therefore been discovered and indexed by Google. Brave search has not indexed the directory as of yet.

Despite the Google visibility and homepage placement, First Party Attribution recorded no traffic from acidtools.com.

Paid vs Free ¶

The free option creates an exchange of links: the submitted website links to Acid Tools through a badge link on the homepage, while Acid Tools provides a directory listing and backlink in return.

The Basic and Premium packages are different. Rather than upgrading the Acid Tools listing, the charge goes towards submitting the listing to 25 or 50 other directories.

Final verdict ¶

Useful as a free backlink, but it produced no measurable traffic. You’re better off going to a bulk listing service.

The free listing delivered what mattered from a backlink perspective. Truly Analytics remained visible on the Acid Tools homepage, the link was complete and Google had discovered the listing across five pages within a few days.

However, Truly Analytics recorded no events from acidtools.com. There is therefore no evidence that the placement generated referral traffic during the period reviewed.

The free option may still have potential SEO value because it provides a dofollow backlink and was found by Google. How well that fits into your need for backlinks and overall marketing strategy depends on where you’re at in your marketing journey.

Truly Analytics ¶

Truly Analytics established that the Acid Tools placement had not generated measurable referral activity, despite the backlink being present and indexed by Google.

Search visibility and backlinks provide SEO value, byt with Truly Analytics tracking our attribution we know for a fact that that is the value that acidtools.com is providing and it’s not likely to be a directory browsed by human users.

Truly Analytics helps organisations understand who is visiting their website, what their real traffic looks like, where it came from and which marketing and sales activity delivers genuine value.