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Wired Business: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get
A 1,700-site directory whose free lane is a genuine dofollow in exchange for a badge, and whose form writes your listing for you first.
wired.business
Eligibility
Who Wired Business accepts
You need
A live URL, which is the only thing the first step asks for
Their badge or a plain link to wired.business on your homepage or footer, on the free lane
A name of 28 characters or fewer and a headline of 140 or fewer
You'll be rejected if
Adult content, gambling and drug-related sites, which the first step names
Anything they read as low quality or spam, which is the other half of the same acknowledgement
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What you actually get
A listing page with a screenshot, a headline, a description and a followed outbound link, inside a directory of about 1,700 sites organised by category. Their card quotes 72 hours, but on this walk the listing went live the moment the badge check passed, with a manage-later edit URL handed over on the success screen.
How to submit to Wired Business
1
Pick the lane
/submit is a two-card pricing page. Free goes to /submit-your-website; Pro adds ?plan=paid to the same URL. The choice is carried in a hidden plan field from there on.
2
Give them a URL and let their AI read it
Step one asks for the URL alone, then spends about half a minute writing a description and taking a screenshot of your site. Nothing else is asked for at this point.
3
Fix what their AI wrote, step 3 of 5
The review step arrives prefilled: on this walk the name field held the homepage's headline rather than the product's name. Name is capped at 28 characters, headline at 140, and the long description is optional. One category from about ninety, plus an email.
4
Verify the badge, step 4 of 5
Submit for verification registers the listing as waiting rather than publishing it. Six badge variants are offered, and their own copy says a plain link to wired.business will do instead. Verify my badge is what publishes it, and on this walk it did so immediately rather than in the 72 hours the card quotes.
Wired Business requirements
Live URL
Website name
28 characters
Headline
140 characters
One category
one of about ninety
Contact email
Their badge or a link to wired.business on your homepage or footer, on the free lane
badge images are 200x54
Long descriptionoptional
two or three sentences
Your own screenshot, if you would rather not use the one they takeoptional
Gotchas
Their AI fills the listing from a scrape before you see the form, and it put the homepage's headline in the 28-character name field. Read every prefilled field against your own copy rather than correcting the obvious one.
The screenshot is taken live from your site, so whatever your consent banner is doing at that moment ends up in the listing image. There is an Upload my own image button next to Retake.
Leaving the flow loses your place: coming back to ?step=badge drops you at step one, and re-entering the URL answers "This website is already in our review queue" with a link to finish. Nothing is lost, but nothing tells you that until you try.
Let your agent submit to Wired Business
Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the Wired Business 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 5 Wired Business rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 8 fields this form asks for, 2 of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Warns you that Wired Business looks for its badge on your site, so it has to be live before you submit rather than after.
Tells you what paying buys here, so you pick it on purpose: pro is $29 once, discounted to $20.30 with a code printed on the page itself, and buys instant publishing with no badge required. The free lane's only cost is the badge.
Types it into Wired Business 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 Wired Business?".
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Wired Business FAQ
How long does Wired Business approval take?
Wired Business's typical time from submission to going live is instant.
How much does it cost to submit to Wired Business?
Wired Business has a free submission option plus paid placement (Pro is $29 once, discounted to $20.30 with a code printed on the page itself, and buys instant publishing with no badge required. The free lane's only cost is the badge.).
Does Wired Business give a dofollow backlink?
Yes, a listing on Wired Business carries a dofollow link. The site has a domain rating of 77.
Does Wired Business require a backlink to your site?
Yes, Wired Business expects a link back from your site as part of listing.
What gets you rejected from Wired Business?
Adult content, gambling and drug-related sites, which the first step names; Anything they read as low quality or spam, which is the other half of the same acknowledgement.