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Footer: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get

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A gallery of nothing but website footers, where the submission is five fields and the link out is dofollow.

footer.design
Footer homepage
Eligibility

Who Footer accepts

You need
A live, publicly hosted site
A name and a URL for whoever is submitting
You'll be rejected if
Staging sites
Unhosted sites
Website footersDesign work
What you actually get
A dofollow link from a DR 50 design gallery and a card filed under one of eleven style tags. The audience is designers hunting inspiration rather than buyers, and the whole page they see is your footer, so this is a credit and a link rather than a launch.

How to submit to Footer

  1. Open the submit page
    One form at /submit, no account. It is framed as nominating footers you admire, and submitting your own is the same form.
  2. Give the site and the designer
    Site URL is the only required field about the work. The designer's name and their website or social are optional, so credit can be left off if you do not know it.
  3. Identify yourself
    Your name and your own website or social URL are both required, and the site says the handle is what they tag when a submission is featured.
  4. Clear the Turnstile and send
    A Cloudflare Turnstile sits on the form. Everything is curated after that, with no reply and no feature guaranteed.

Footer requirements

Site URL
256 characters
Your name
256 characters
Your website or social URL
256 characters
Designer nameoptional
256 characters
Designer's website or socialoptional
256 characters

Gotchas

A Cloudflare Turnstile guards the form, so this is one you finish by hand however the rest of your submissions are done.
They say plainly that they cannot guarantee a feature or a reply, and there is no queue or status page, so a submission that was passed over looks exactly like one still waiting.
The two required fields about you are your name and your own URL, so submitting anonymously is not an option even when you are nominating somebody else's work.

Let your agent submit to Footer

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the Footer playbook and gets the brief for this exact form, with the values already taken from your submission pack instead of placeholders you fill in by hand.

What it does for this platform
Checks your product against the 4 Footer rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 5 fields this form asks for, 2 of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Types it into Footer in your own browser, and stops for you when the form wants a sign-in.
Records what it sent, so the dashboard can answer "did I ever submit to Footer?".
Connect your agentHow this worksTools and endpointsWorks with Claude Code, Claude, Codex, Cursor, VS Code and Hermes.

Footer FAQ

How long does Footer approval take?
Footer does not publish how long approval takes.
How much does it cost to submit to Footer?
Submitting to Footer is free.
Does Footer give a dofollow backlink?
Yes, a listing on Footer carries a dofollow link. The site has a domain rating of 50.
Does Footer require a backlink to your site?
No, Footer does not require a link back from your site.
What gets you rejected from Footer?
Staging sites; Unhosted sites.