Short, citation-friendly answers about how LinkVault works, what dofollow means, and how AI search engines discover your listing.
A dofollow backlink is a hyperlink rendered as a plain anchor tag with no rel="nofollow" attribute. It passes ranking authority from the source page to the destination, which is how search engines like Google treat the link as an endorsement that can lift the destination's organic rankings.
Yes. There is no submission fee, no premium tier required for a dofollow link, and no recurring cost. Your listing goes live the moment you submit it.
LinkVault renders every listing as semantic HTML, includes it in the XML sitemap, and pings the sitemap on each build. Most listings are discovered by Googlebot within 24 to 72 hours; indexing then depends on the destination URL's own crawl signals.
Yes. Our robots.txt explicitly allows GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Bytespider, and CCBot. Every listing is also referenced from llms.txt, the manifest AI assistants use to map a site.
Listings stay live indefinitely as long as the destination URL keeps resolving and follows our editorial guidelines. We do not expire links to extract upsells.
Adult content, illegal goods, malware or phishing, doorway pages, expired domains, and obvious PBNs. Anything that would harm visitor trust or trigger a Google manual action is removed.
Yes, but submit each site separately with a unique description that explains what it does. Bulk identical submissions are removed.
Email hello@bookedav.com from an address on the listed domain. Removals are processed within 48 hours and the URL is dropped from the next sitemap update.
Not at this time. LinkVault is a directory, not a publication. For long-form placements, see our partner site Booked AV.
Traditional directories often nofollow their outbound links or hide them behind JavaScript redirects. LinkVault renders every outbound link as a static dofollow anchor so the SEO value passes cleanly.