The badge

Show the badge on your site and keep a followable link back to tinylist.lol, and your listing’s outbound link is followable too. No badge, no followable link — that is the entire deal, and it is the same for every listing including the first one.

what this is and is not

A followable link here is one referring domain. That is a real, measurable input to link-graph metrics like Ahrefs’ Domain Rating. It is not a promise about Google rankings — search engines decide what a link is worth, not us — and it is not a promise about our own authority, which can rise or fall for reasons outside anyone’s control. If a board tells you otherwise, it is selling you something.

the rules

Link to the root. The badge must link to https://tinylist.lol exactly, as in the snippets below. A link to any deeper page does not count.
Keep it followable. A rel containing nofollow, sponsored or ugc does not count.
Put it in the HTML. Our checker does not run JavaScript. A link injected client-side is invisible to it, and to most crawlers.
Same host. We look at the URL you listed, or at that host’s front page. We mean the exact host, not the wider registrable domain — a badge on blog.example.com does not cover example.com.
We re-check every week. If the badge goes missing we email you and give you 72 hours. After that the link drops to nofollow. Your listing stays live either way, and putting the badge back restores the link on the next check.
Our crawler identifies as tinylistbot/1.0. Allow-list it if your site blocks unknown bots.

dark

html

<a href="https://tinylist.lol" title="Featured on tinylist">
  <img src="https://tinylist.lol/badge/tinylist-badge-dark.svg"
       alt="Featured on tinylist" width="200" height="56" />
</a>

react

export function TinylistBadge() {
  return (
    <a href="https://tinylist.lol" title="Featured on tinylist">
      <img src="https://tinylist.lol/badge/tinylist-badge-dark.svg"
           alt="Featured on tinylist" width={200} height={56} />
    </a>
  );
}

light

html

<a href="https://tinylist.lol" title="Featured on tinylist">
  <img src="https://tinylist.lol/badge/tinylist-badge-light.svg"
       alt="Featured on tinylist" width="200" height="56" />
</a>

react

export function TinylistBadge() {
  return (
    <a href="https://tinylist.lol" title="Featured on tinylist">
      <img src="https://tinylist.lol/badge/tinylist-badge-light.svg"
           alt="Featured on tinylist" width={200} height={56} />
    </a>
  );
}

paper

html

<a href="https://tinylist.lol" title="Featured on tinylist">
  <img src="https://tinylist.lol/badge/tinylist-badge-paper.svg"
       alt="Featured on tinylist" width="200" height="56" />
</a>

react

export function TinylistBadge() {
  return (
    <a href="https://tinylist.lol" title="Featured on tinylist">
      <img src="https://tinylist.lol/badge/tinylist-badge-paper.svg"
           alt="Featured on tinylist" width={200} height={56} />
    </a>
  );
}