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Why a Free Directory Beats a Paid Launch (Most of the Time)
I have watched founders pay for a launch slot and get less traffic than a free listing that took four minutes to submit. The maths is not close as often as people assume.
What a paid launch actually sells
You are buying placement on a page that already has an audience. If the audience matches your buyer and you can be present all day, that can be worth real money.
What you are not buying is permanence. The page moves on, and next week someone else's launch sits where yours was.
What a free listing gives you
A URL that stays live, gets indexed, and can be linked from your own site forever. Ten of those pages cost nothing and outlast any single spike.
They also compound: the more places your product exists, the more likely a search engine treats it as a real thing rather than a new page.
The order I recommend
Free listings first — starting with Launch Nest LN — so the product has a footprint. Then pay only for the one launch site where your buyers already hang out.
Never pay for visibility before the landing page converts. Traffic sent to a broken page is money set on fire in public.
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