Rules — rankit

Rules

rankit is a public leaderboard for websites, and it runs a month at a time. There are no ads, votes, reviews, or algorithm. Your position is the amount you have paid for that listing this month — nothing else.

The month

A month is one contest. It opens on the 1st with every position empty and closes at the end of the last day, both in UTC.
When it closes the standings freeze and are published at a permanent address — the archive — with the final rank, bid and click count of every listing. Those pages are not edited afterwards.
Bids do not carry over. A page that reached $40 in one month starts from nothing in the next, and so does everyone else. What you keep is the permanent record, not the position.
If a payment confirms after the board has reset, it applies to the new month for the amount you actually paid. Only the difference from your old bid was charged, and that difference is worth more on an empty board than it was on a full one.

How ranking works

Bids are whole US dollars, starting at $1.
Your displayed bid is your position. Paying less than #1 still puts you wherever that total reaches.
Equal bids keep their original order. The listing that arrived first stays higher.
Submit the same website again to climb. Set the new total you want; at checkout, you pay only the difference from your current bid this month.
Anyone can outbid you at any time. A rank is a live position for the rest of the month, not a slot you own for a fixed period.
A checkout does not reserve a rank. The board can move before your payment is confirmed.

What you can list

A website you own or run — a product, tool, business, or landing page.
Group-chat and invite links are not listed. That includes Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Signal, Messenger, and similar services.
Sexual, adult, illegal, deceptive, or malicious content is not listed.
Query parameters and fragments are removed, so affiliate, referral, and tracking links will not work.
Links are keyed by domain and path. Two pages on the same domain can be separate listings with separate bids.

After you pay

A completed Stripe payment claims the bid. The listing normally appears or moves within a minute.
The title, description, and logo are read from your own page. If your page publishes none, the listing shows its domain and nothing more.
Clicks go straight to the submitted URL, with utm_source=rankit added so you can see the traffic in your own analytics.
The click count is public and counts one click per visitor per day, so it is a floor on real interest rather than a raw tally.
Submitting an existing domain and path updates its bid instead of creating a duplicate listing.
Your listing keeps its final rank in that month's archive page permanently, whether or not you bid again.

Payments and refunds

Payments are processed by Stripe. rankit never receives or stores your card details.
Bids are non-refundable. Neither being outbid nor the month ending is a refund reason — both are how the board works, and both are stated before you pay.
Listings that break these rules may be removed without a refund.
If something looks wrong with a payment, contact the operator before opening a dispute.

What this is not

A rank is not an endorsement. Nothing here is reviewed, tested, or vetted for quality — a listing at #1 paid the most, and that is the only claim it makes.
No traffic is promised. The visitor counters in the header are the real numbers, updated from the site's own analytics, and they are all you should base a bid on.
Listing here is not an SEO product. Every listing link is marked sponsored nofollow, because it is paid placement, and the board makes no claim about search rankings.

That is the whole ruleset. Go and look at the board — first place is whatever someone is currently willing to pay.